Our Memory Quotes

87 quotes by 78 authors

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just… — Jorge Luis Borges
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually… — Joshua Foer
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly… — Vaclav Havel
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future… — Marcel Proust
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for… — Seneca the Younger
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny the Younger
We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say... — Margaret George
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they… — Amy Poehler
Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory. — Gary Numan
Nothing stands still, except in our memory. — Philippa Pearce
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brainâ€™s own ability to remember… — Douglas Rushkoff
We should use our imagination more than our memory. — Shimon Peres
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran
To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow… — John H. Lienhard
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by… — Heloise
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. — Paulo Coelho
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… — Diane F. Halpern

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