Memory Quotations
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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| Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. |
| - Diane Ackerman |
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| If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. |
| - Sir James Matthew Barrie |
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| Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. |
| - Saul Bellow |
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| There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. |
| - Edward de Bono |
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| It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? |
| - Lord Byron |
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| There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. |
| - James Branch Cabell |
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| A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. |
| - Hortense Calisher |
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| It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. |
| - Lewis Carroll |
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| The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. |
| - Salvador Dali |
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| The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. |
| - Tryon Edwards |
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| The past is never dead, it is not even past. |
| - William Faulkner |
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| Creditors have better memories than debtors. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. |
| - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. |
| - David Gerrold |
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| Every man's memory is his private literature. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. |
| - P.D. James |
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| The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. |
| - Austin O'Malley |
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| What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. |
| - Cynthia Ozick |
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| We do not remember days; we remember moments. |
| - Cesare Pavese |
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| The palest ink is better than the best memory. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Memory itself is an internal rumour. |
| - George Santayana |
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| The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. |
| - Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
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| Memory feeds imagination. |
| - Amy Tan |
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| When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. |
| - John Updike |
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| Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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