MEMORY QUOTES

quotations about memory

Memory quote

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

JOHN GREEN

An Abundance of Katherines

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Memory believes before knowing remembers.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Light in August

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Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

GIORGIO AGAMBEN

Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy


I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
When they were anticipations
I spent them
And bought you with them,
But now I have exchanged you for memories,
And I will only pour them from one hand into the other
And back again.

WITTER BYNNER

"I Compute", The Beloved Stranger

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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

"Q & A: Author Carlos Ruiz Zafon", Time, June 30, 2009

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There is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, no less: and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Miss Julie

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All the old accumulated rubbish-years which we call memory.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

HAROLD PINTER

Old Times

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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

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, July 28, 1940

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Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

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Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blood Meridian

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

LEWIS CARROLL

Alice Through the Looking Glass

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Glass Menagerie

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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

SAUL BELLOW

Mr. Sammler's Planet

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Honeymooning, moonlighting, late for the Proms,
Our echoes die in that corridor and now
I come as Hansel came on the moonlit stones
Retracing the path back, lifting the buttons.

SEAMUS HEANEY

The Underground

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