Faded Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of…

— John Locke

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

— Honore de Balzac

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

— Jules Renard

Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother…

— Anthony Doerr

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful,…

— Ruth Ozeki

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of…

— Susan Shreve

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

— Tobsha Learner

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

“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