Memory Quotes

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered" "History is the memory of states" "When you are talking about a great player, if you can't remember who he played against or some of the guys, he played against ain't great" "The greatest gift is the ability to forget, to forget the bad things and use the good things to keep marching on" "You know what’s the happiest animal on Earth? It’s a goldfish. You know why? It’s got a ten-second memory." "Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life." "The stories we love best do live in us forever" "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title." "The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow" "Stories are a way to give meaning to life. Without stories, life would be nothing more than a series of disconnected events" "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time" "To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality." "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same" "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived." "Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own." "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." "You know how this is if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything brings me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me" "I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window" "Remember, Simba. I’m always with you, even if you can’t see me"