memory Quotes

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

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:memory

“In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:memory consciousness

“We only labour to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:understanding memory

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:heart memory

“Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

topic:knowledge memory trust

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:beauty memory

“pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pain memory

“Time's the thief of memory”

― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

topic:time memory

“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

topic:memory forgetting

“Either I forget immediately or I never forget.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

topic:memory forgetting

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