Memory Quotes And Sayings

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“Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.”
– Guillaume Apollinaire

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
– Harold Pinter

“Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A mothers happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
– Honor de Balzac

“What an insidious drug memory can be. Especially the memory of unhappiness.”
– Horace Holley

“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

“If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.”
– Ivan Klima

“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.” 
– J.M. Barrie

“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
– James Branch Cabell

“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

“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.” 
– Jean de Boufflers

“Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.”
– Jean Paul Richter

“Hmmm, how to “can a day?”  You know, those days that seem just perfect you want access to them whenever the need arises.” 
– Jeb Dickerson

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.”
– Jeremy Irons

“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
– Joan Didion

“Remembering. I am half-smiling at ridiculous situations, crazy people and strange places, all with the benefit of hindsight. I admit I am choosing my memories selectively. I am quickening time, losing years and even improving my looks. I have never included the bad side which, I know, is an integral part of one’s memories. That was not for me.”
– John Kemp

“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.”
– John Locke

“You can’t run away from memories, no matter how hard you try.”
– John Saul

“In memory’s telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.” 
– John Updike

“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.” 
– Josh Billings

“Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.”
– Lady Marguerite Blessington

“For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.”
– Laura Swenson

“I was shaking all over, and it wasn’t from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
– Lewis Carroll

“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

“Memory is what makes us young or old.”
– Louis Charles Alfred de Musset

“The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.”
– Marcel Proust

“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.” 
– Margaret Fairless Barber

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