Talk:Memory

Memory works well when others fail, and pretends to when we fail

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

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• What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
  • Portuguese proverb

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How can this be a quote from Seneca, but a anonymous portuguese proverb at the same time? --141.54.149.6 00:00, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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

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

• It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment—but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
  • Lord Byron

• Memories of the past remain in the past, but as you make new memories in the present and walk towards the future, the past is still simply, the best.
  • Mark Aaron A. Corrales

• 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 Dalí

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

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

• Footfalls echo in the memory
  Down the passage which we did not take
  Towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.
  • T.S. Eliot

• The past is never dead, it is not even past.
  • William Faulkner

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

• I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
  • David Gerrold

• That's the funny thing about memories, we are not what we remember of ourselves. We are what people say we are. They project upon us their convictions. We are nothing but blank screens.
  • Trevor Goodchild

• Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
  • Andre Gide

• Remember to not forget; forget to not remember
  • Dizzy Gillespie

• Original thought...often goes with a bad memory. An overstuffed brain has less need to work things out for itself.
  • Charles Handy

• Every man's memory is his private literature.
  • Aldous Huxley

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

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

• It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
  • Barbara Kingsolver

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
  • Barbara Kingsolver

• You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
  • Stanislaw Lec

• It's extraordinary How little we do remember. It's almost as if Memory is not considered useful by nature.
  • Doris Lessing

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

• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
  • Michel de Montaigne

• Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
  • Austin O'Malley

• What we remember from childhood we remember forever—permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
  • Cynthia Ozick

• Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday.
  • Mario Rocco

• I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
  • Diane Sawyer

• All gone. Zelazny was one of the first times I looked at something I had had familiarity with to find the spot where the memory should have been empty, replaced by a scrawled 'Moved South for the Fishing' sign. Calculus was another loss. It was quite upsetting to reach for a skill and find nothing.
  • James Nicoll (2004).

• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

• The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

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

• The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
  • Carol Shields

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

• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
  • Thoreau

• In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
  • John Updike

• The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
  • Oscar Wilde

• Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
  • The Wonder Years.

Anonymous

• What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
  • Portuguese proverb

• Memory, like women, is usually unfaithful.
  • Spanish proverb

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tryst (talk • contribs) 16:55, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

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