And they all pretend they're Orphans And their memory's…

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things…

— Tom Waits

“And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.”

— Tom Waits

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

— Herb Caen

“I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of…

— Joseph Conrad

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…

— Haruki Murakami

“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own…

— Pat Conroy

I've got better things to do than remember you...

— Anonymous

Nothing improves the memory like trying to forget...

— James Merrow

“Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people)…

— Jamie Raskin

The memory of you is like a cobweb that lingers in my mind and stings through my organ of fire.

— Arcine Arciniegas

“I have a memory like a baseball glove, so please, don’t toss me a basketball-sized rumination.”

— Jarod Kintz

But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live…

— Paulo Coelho

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory…

— Haruki Murakami

“You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it’s filled up with old stuff there ain’t no way…

— Lee Child

“That's what memory is like: layers, one overlapping another, and compacting down the way old leaves slowly crumble and turn to a rich peaty…

— Julia Green