MEMORY QUOTES III
quotations about memory
He began to seach 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
To the Lighthouse
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Heavenly Fire
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
EDWARD ALBEE
Three Tall Women
My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
E. L. DOCTOROW
Homer & Langley
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
STEPHEN KING
"Memory"
Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.
MICHIO KUSHI
Spiritual Journey
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The Notebook
The nice thing about having a bad memory, you enjoy reruns.
ANONYMOUS
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Ethel Churchill
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.
MARCEL PROUST
Sodom and Gomorrah
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
ELIE WIESEL
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1986
How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
DAN SIMMONS
Endymion
Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.
WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH
Tescott
Continents of memory had been lost.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
The Diagnosis
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
Fading Joy
Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
JOHN IRVING
A Prayer for Owen Meany
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
ANNE RICE
Blood and Gold
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Kafka on the Shore