quotations about memory
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
IVAN KLIMA
speech at conference in Lahti, Finland, 1990
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Look at the Bees
Memory is the thing you forget with.
ALEXANDER CHASE
Perspectives
Time's the thief of memory.
STEPHEN KING
The Gunslinger
I have memories -- but only a fool stores his past in the future.
DAVID GERROLD
A Covenant of Justice
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
EUGENE IONESCO
Present Past / Past Present
I can't compete with a memory
How can I fight with someone that I can't see?
There's two of us but it feels like three
I wish her ghost would just let us be
Boy you're everything I ever wanted
But I got to let you go 'cause this love is
Haunted.
RIHANNA
"Haunted Good Girl Gone Bad"
What an insidious drug memory can be. Especially the memory of unhappiness.
HORACE HOLLEY
His Luck
I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.
SUSANNA MOORE
In the Cut
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain,
And slight the chords that still retain
A heart estranged to joys again,
To scenes by memory's silver chain
Close-linked, and ever yet apart,
That like the vine, whose tendrils young
Around some fostering branch have clung,
Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung
From one united heart.
BRET HARTE
"The Homestead Barn"
I'm against diaries and all for datebooks, because memory is more indelible than ink.
ANITA LOOS
Kiss Hollywood Good-By
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss ... the next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.
ALAN MOORE
Batman: The Killing Joke
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
The pleasures of memory are among those pleasures that our fellow men cannot rob us of. Through every strange scene of our life we can always look back, through memory, to happy days and happy scenes when our young and thoughtless hearts were free from the trials, the anxieties, and cares of our more mature years. Memory leads us back to childhood's home, and childhood's happiest hours, when our young souls were free from the stains of remorse, and the clouds of sin, and our young hearts leapt with innocent joys. Free from all sensuous pleasures, tastes or appetites, we thought not of the future, but as some bright and sunny land, and as youth advanced built castles in the air, that we little knew then could never be realised. Memory is the diary of our souls, wherein is printed all the pleasures, pains, trials and troubles of childhood, youth, maturity, and riper years, a chart on which our track is marked, pointing out all the dangers we have safely travelled through on our voyage to eternity.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Memory", Short Essays
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.
ALEXANDER LOWEN
Fear of Life