2,914 Quotes About Memory

A poet without memory, said Marconi, is like a criminal and nearly undone by feelings of decency. A poet without memory is an oxymoron. Because the poet is the memory of the language.

The darkness was memory.

Memory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was--that is research. The point is to dwell on the way it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.

Another way to remember someone is to create more memories with that person. The more there is to forget, the longer forgetting takes.

...reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease...

Despair has the accent of irrevocability not because things cannot improve, but because it draws the past too into its vortex.

Ведь память постоянно мутирует. Как с повторами по телевидению, я в таких случаях всякий раз думаю: фильм-то я помню, но разве в нем так все было? А ведь фильм тот же самый, просто насквозь пророс в моем мозгу сорняками забвения. Я говорю про плазму в мозгу, наверное, мутирует именно она. Память. Вот как я себе это представляю: прозрачная масса, в которой светятся разные штуки. Воспоминания, образы — светлячки.

He won't tell me very much about his war.None of us do. It isn't something to share, you see. What we've seen, what we've done, ought to stay in France. But it didn't, it came home in our memories. They aren't memories we want you to know. You are the world we fought for. Safe and sane and not ugly. Better to keep it that way.

It's a great blessing to have a good memory . . . it's my picture book and I can turn over the leaves when I like. So many of my memories are centred here in Dunnian, so many people have lived in the old house. There were seven of us and they're all dead except me, but I can see them if I shut my eyes. Their youth is here—still here in Dunnian.