Memory Quotes
Memory has a small number of very good, well-sourced lines. Oscar Wilde, in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), calls it the diary we all carry about with us. William James, in The Principles of Psychology (1890), says that forgetting is as important a function of the intellect as recollecting. Ray Bradbury, in Long After Midnight (1976), says that God gives us dreadful gifts and the most dreadful is memory.
The flagged lines are the kind that circulate on social media. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory” to Dr. Seuss, and a line about the sap in the trees carrying the memory of the red man to Chief Seattle. All three are marked misattributed.
Memory, no less than hope, owes its charm to "the far-away."
Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.
To have a good memory the first thing you have to do is to trust your memory.
Almost every reality you "know" at any given second is a mere ghost held in memory.
Jack already immune to death, let their white faces drift from his memory.
A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.