Quotes on “memory”

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.