A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. – Edward de Bono
It was as if some silver chime had waked a chord in his memory. – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907
We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch. – Surya Das
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. – Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. – Josh Billings
Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. – P.D. James
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses — would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? – Rainer Maria Rilke
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow
Memory itself is an internal rumour. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. – Carol Shields
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
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”
Living in memories is an empty gesture. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. – Author Unknown
There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. – Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973
