2,914 Quotes About Memory

You remember too much,my mother said to me recently.Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude...

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by the mood of the person looking at it. In it a person sees his own inner, transitory moments. Wherever he looks, he sees nothing but himself.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.