Memory Quotes

• I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Memory
  • Role
  • Person's identity

• A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Memory
  • Occasion

• I’m just another memory in a box in the closet collecting dust. I’m just another promise that you broke when we broke up. I’m just another old flame. We were burning hot until we burned out. I’m just another first name in your little black book with the ink crossed out. Just another girl, just another girl…

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Promise

• History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

  

  Mike Colter
  • History
  • Memory
  • Repeats

• I don't think so, ... He remembers those other 12 games. They didn't fade from his memory.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Games
  • Memory
  • Remembers

• Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Memory
  • Comeback
  • Falling

• I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Memory
  • Loss
  • Identity perspective

• The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Dream
  • Desire
  • Lies

• … That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Home
  • Back
  • Map

• Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Information
  • Mediocre
  • Human Justice

• I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Blood
  • Memory
  • I Believe In

• It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Thinking
  • Memory
  • Computers

• All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Artist
  • Memory
  • Art Is

• Well, she had had the most wonderful summer; she had got that anyhow tucked away up the sleeve of her memory, and could bring it out and look at it when the days were wet and she felt cold and sick.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Summer
  • Sick
  • Memory

• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Memory
  • Remembrance
  • Oblivion

• What would it do to your psyche if this were your sky? What would it do to the racial awareness of your species if this were their memory of their dirt-bound cradle, before they stepped out into the great emptiness beyond?

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Awareness
  • Emptiness
  • Psyche

• To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth.

  

  Hallie Erminie Rives
  • Life
  • Care
  • Sorry

• Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Philosophy

• Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Truth
  • Learn
  • Memory

• White Americans have a short memory.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Memory

• My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

  

  Sarah Parish
  • Dance
  • Memory
  • Watching

• Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Learn
  • Memory
  • Weapon

• It takes tremendous energy to keep functioning while carrying the memory of terror, and the shame of utter weakness and vulnerability.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Energy
  • Weakness
  • Terror

• The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Regret
  • Memory
  • Image

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