MEMORY QUOTES V

quotations about memory

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Marginalia"

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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner

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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

ALAN COOPER

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

DAN SIMMONS

Olympos


It was not that he didn't remember he once had another sort of life. But, like the old yellowing photograph at home, which he did not burn, it was sad to think about, and far away, like another world that had disappeared forever.

GAO XINGJIAN

One Man's Bible

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Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall
Shadows of the thoughts of day,
And thy fortunes, as they fall,
The bias of the will betray.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Memory

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Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.

MARTIN AMIS

House of Meetings

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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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Memory is a bad book-keeper.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Memories are like flagstones, time and distance work upon them like drops of acid.

UGO BETTI

Crime on Goat Island


Remembering. I am half-smiling at ridiculous situations, crazy people and strange places, all with the benefit of hindsight. I admit I am choosing my memories selectively. I am quickening time, losing years and even improving my looks. I have never included the bad side which, I know, is an integral part of one's memories. That was not for me.

JOHN KEMP

Sticky Wicket

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So in the heart,
When, fading slowly down the past,
Fond memories depart,
And each that leaves it seems the last;
Long after all the rest are flown,
Returns a solitary tone,
The after-echo of departed years,
And touches all the soul to tears.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"The After-Echo"

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To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

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Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

JOAN DIDION

Blue Nights

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Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various and manifold, and exceeding immense.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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