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.
Fondest memories of him, at work, he really put his whole heart into his work. One hundred percent.
It still felt like hauling buckets from a well of memory with a rope that burned his hands.
It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.
No—living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful.
A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.