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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present
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
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound
- 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
What an insidious drug memory can be. Especially the memory of unhappiness.
Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.
WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH, Tescott
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, Miss Julie
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.
DIANE F. HALPERN, Thought and Knowledge
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
EDWARD ALBEE, Three Tall Women
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park
Remembering. I am half-smiling at ridiculous situations, crazy people and strange places, all with the benefit of hindsight. I admit I am choosing my memories selectively. I am quickening time, losing years and even improving my looks. I have never included the bad side which, I know, is an integral part of one's memories. That was not for me.
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
HAROLD PINTER, Old Times
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
LEWIS CARROLL, Alice Through the Looking Glass
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
ANNE RICE, Blood and Gold
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, The Irrational Knot
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present
What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?
Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow.
PHILIP MOELLER, The Roadhouse in Arden
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