Top Memory Quotes

...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

Memory Definition

(n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

(n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

(n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

(n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

(n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.

(n.) A memorial.

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are repli...

One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

Awake your soul to happy memories.

Happiness is not always a reality many times it is in our memory.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart's gift Upon the ocean of gratitude soul's boat adrift Invisible expectancy tossed and turnedFrom the light of memories a blessed ray earned

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me

Every day it’s something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they’ll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars...

Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.

[O]ne of the most influential approaches to thinking about memory in recent years, known as connectionism, has abandoned the idea that a memory is an activated picture of a past event. Connectionist o...

But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite another, and though once I thought I had left that ravine forever on an April afternoon long ago, now I am...

What is living? Forging memories. What is dying? Forgetting them.I never die.

The flame of the inn is dim tonight,Too many vacant chairs.The sun has lost too much of its light,Too many songs have taken flight,Too many ghosts on the stairs.Charon, here's to you as man against ma...

...first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simu...

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.