Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Free Memory Quotes collection! 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

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

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ☞ Barbara Kingsolver,

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ☞ Barbara Kingsolver,

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

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,

I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them. ☞ Witter Bynner

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

I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. ☞ Diane Sawyer

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ☞ From the television show

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,

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ☞ Austin O’Malley

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,