Our Memory Quotes
87 quotes by 78 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
— Pliny the Younger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.
— Gary Numan
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Nothing stands still, except in our memory.
— Philippa Pearce
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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We should use our imagination more than our memory.
— Shimon Peres
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By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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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
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Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
— Paulo Coelho
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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
Who Wrote These Our Memory Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 87 Our Memory Quotes, led by these top contributors: