memory Quotes

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

topic:hiding memory

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

topic:memory intelligence

“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:memory past history

“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:pain memory pleasure

“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:memory present

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:happiness memory past

“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“the memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:time memory

“Memory . . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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