Our Memory Quotes

87 quotes by 78 authors

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If… — Haruki Murakami
We donâ€™t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of… — Nicholas G. Carr
Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of… — Janet Frame
Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't… — Matthew Quick
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they… — Robert Southey
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. — Joseph Conrad
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory… — Gary Wolf
If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. — Robert Wilson
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. — Nicolas Roeg
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our… — Tony Buzan
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our… — Richard Eyre
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me… — Todd Haynes
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without… — Luis BuÃ±uel
Generally, we believe our memory is weak. But when we want to forget someone we care a lot about, we begin to realize how powerful… — Abhishek Tiwari
We live in a time when the values of courage and honesty, particularly for women writers, equate to confessing only the darkest, most painful parts… — Rebecca
Some past mistakes don't deserve a rebuke when they show up in our memory lane. They just need a handshake and a kind reminder that… — Terry Mark
I tried to find you at the bottom of a bottle Laying down on the bathroom floor My loneliness was raddling the windows You said… — Cassedee Pope < 3
Memories need to be shared because there will come a time that our memory fades and memories are forgotten. — Merlyn
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms. — Claude Simon

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