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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |