Memory Quotes

• Her breath smelled terrible and I told myself to commit that fact to memory, to remember it the next time I was intimidated by her unwavering grace.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Remember
  • Memory
  • Breath

• As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Help
  • Change
  • Meaning

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

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Memory
  • Loss
  • Identity perspective

• In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Information
  • Studies
  • Relevance

• Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Memory
  • Bones
  • Illusions

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

  

  Paul Klee
  • Artist
  • Memory
  • Art Is

• My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • My Life
  • Memory
  • Scars

• Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

  

  Will Durant
  • Memory
  • Mother`s
  • Reasoning

• I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Remember
  • Strong
  • Pain

• … 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

• In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

  

  George Eliot
  • Childhood
  • Kindness
  • Memory

• It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Man
  • Spring
  • Memory

• 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

• Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Understand
  • Built
  • Wings

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

  

  Sarah Parish
  • Dance
  • Memory
  • Watching

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Regret
  • Memory
  • Image

• 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

• 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

• White Americans have a short memory.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Memory

• That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Cutting
  • Memory
  • Knife

• 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

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

  

  Ally Carter
  • Learn
  • Memory
  • Weapon

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