Memory Quotes And Sayings

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“The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood.  It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.” 
– Stephen Lacey

“We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.”
– Surya Das

“I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can’t prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.”
– Susanna Moore

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
– Tennessee Williams

“Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.”
– Tennessee Williams

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”
– Tennessee Williams

“Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.”
– Terri Guillemets

“The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.” 
– Thalassa Cruso

“The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.”
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories.  Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.” 
– Thomas Fuller

“The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.”
– Tim O’Brien

“Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn’t mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.”
– Tobias Wolff

“Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.”
– Tobsha Leaner

“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

“Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.”
– Umberto Eco

“All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life— this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone?”
– Vimala Thakar

“In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.”
– Virginia Woolf

“He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.”
– Virginia Woolf

“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
– Vladimir Nabokov

“What if we’re all like that? Like ghosts … in someone’s mind … gradually fading … fading … until finally … one day … we just disappear … drift into nothingness. Wouldn’t that be sad?”
– Walter Wykes

“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
– Willa Cather

“The past is never dead, it is not even past.” 
– William Faulkner

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
– William Faulkner

“Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.”
– William Herbert Carruth

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