A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de Bono
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Austin O'Malley
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
Pierce Harris
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P.D. James
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?
Rainer Maria Rilke
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
Jean de Boufflers
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson
I have memories, but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold
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
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
Memory itself is an internal rumour.
George Santayana
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
Carol Shields
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
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
Cynthia Ozick
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
William Faulkner
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thomas Fuller
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
T.S. Eliot
Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday.
Mario Rocco
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
John Updike
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Seneca
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.
Robert Brault
ife is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.
Terri Guillemets
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
Author Unknown
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 two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
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
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
Frank Deford
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
From the movie An Affair to Remember
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
Diane Sawyer
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
