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.
I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Nothing can last forever; there is no memory, however intense, that does not fade.
"Memory is unreliable, but fiction allows us to search for emotional truths beyond facts."
No memories of all we had can go away, They keep hunting me, They keep hurting me, I can’t avoid.
We want to give back memory, we want to give back dignity to the victims of the crimes in Chojnice.
The memory of images is stored within us, and it is to this that we attach our feelings.
"Literature and cinema are partners in preserving the memory of a people."