2,914 Quotes About Memory

MISS PRISMMemory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.

To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don't know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.

I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

I think there's a different authenticity to memory, and not an inferior one. Memory sorts and sifts according to the demands made on it by the rememberer.

Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?