Memory Quotes
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Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
Rudyard Kipling
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I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.
Bob Hicok
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According to the most outspoken and vituperative Skeptics, therapists specializing in recovered memory therapy operate in a neverland of fairy dust and mythic monsters. Woefully out of touch with modern research, engaging in “crude psychiatric analysis,” guilty of oversimplification, overextension, and “incestuous opinion citing,” these misguided, undertrained, and overzealous clinicians are implanting false memories in the minds of suggestible clients, making “therapeutic lifers” out of their patients and ripping families apart.
Elizabeth Loftus
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
Plutarch
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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
George Eliot
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
John Calvin
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I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.
Franz Kafka
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“Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate conciousness by the limits of short-term memory.”
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.
Anna Funder
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To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
Claude Simon
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Myths have a very long memory.
Bryan Sykes
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
Adam Zagajewski
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The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.
Aldo Gucci
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To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.
George Schaller
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Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.
Charlotte Bronte
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I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.
Ed Gass-Donnelly
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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls
are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
Catherynne M. Valente
