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 Dali (1904–89) Spanish Painter
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
—Dorothee Solle (1929–2003) German Lutheran Theologian, Activist
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
—James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American Author of Fantasy Fiction
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Memory is more incredible than ink.
—Anita Loos (1888–1981) American Actor, Novelist, Screenwriter
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
—Tennessee Williams (1911–83) American Playwright
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
—Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) Italian-born French Poet, Playwright
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
—Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-American Novelist
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach (b.1947) American Self-help Author
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832–98) British Author, Mathematician, Clergyman, Logician
We don’t remember days; we remember moments.
—Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
—Austin O’Malley (1858–1932) American Aphorist, Ophthalmologist
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver (b.1955) American Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
—Barbara Kingsolver (b.1955) American Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927–2014) Colombian Novelist, Short-Story Writer
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Creditors have better memories than debtors; they are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
—Giambattista Basile (1566–1632) Italian Courtier, Fairy Tale Collector
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not easy to forget.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-born British Playwright, Poet, Elected Rep
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
—Unknown
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
—Chinese Proverb
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.
—George D. Prentice (1802–70) American Journalist, Editor, Poet
Memory feeds imagination.
—Amy Tan (b.1952) Chinese-American Novelist
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849) Irish Novelist, Literary Hostess
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