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- For the strong magic of conception, mingled with the fumes of memory,
- Giveth me a life in all past time, yea, and addeth substance to the future.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can rote volumes.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
Memory is a bad book-keeper.
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
DAN SIMMONS, The Rise of Endymion
Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPER, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- Past dreams of bliss our lives contain,
- And slight the chords that still retain
- A heart estranged to joys again,
- To scenes by memory's silver chain
- Close-linked, and ever yet apart,
- That like the vine, whose tendrils young
- Around some fostering branch have clung,
- Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung
- From one united heart.
BRET HARTE, "The Homestead Barn"
You can't run away from memories, no matter how hard you try.
JOHN SAUL, Midnight Voices
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
DOUG LARSON, attributed, Look at the Bees
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
Memory is the greatest traveller.
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, Blood Meridian
Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?
A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.
- Memory is the keystone of the arch
- On which the mental structure is erect;
- That wondrous edifice reaching to heav'n!
He began to seach among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.
VIRGINIA WOOLF, To the Lighthouse
I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.
SUSANNA MOORE, In the Cut
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