Category: Memory Quotes SMS

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory. ~Tim O’Brien, Tomcat in Love

What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.  ~Cynthia OzickPIH

Memory is a child walking along a seashore.  You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.  ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.  ~Josh Billings

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it.  It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.  ~Carol ShieldsPIH

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.  ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922QG

Memory itself is an internal rumour.  ~George Santayana, The Life of ReasonSH

Nothing is more memorable than a smell.  One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.  Smells detonate softly in our […]

To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Groundstanza 6; BMC

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.  ~Samuel Johnson

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges. ~Terri Guillemets

I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.  ~Diane Sawyer in TV Guide

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.  ~Seneca

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.  ~Frank Deford

A happy childhood can’t be cured.  Mine’ll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that’s all, instead of a noose.  ~Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971RC

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels:  it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.  ~Salvador Dali

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories.  Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.  ~Thomas Fuller

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.  ~Author Unknown

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. ~Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"

…and torture myself with happy thoughts…  ~Terri Guillemets

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.  ~Edward de Bono

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

The past is never dead, it is not even past.  ~William Faulkner, quoted in Newsweek, 21 Feb 1977; SH

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.  ~P.D. James