Quotes About Memory

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

The great words never die... and so does the soul of its author.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

I would remember this as one of those moments in life that I can hold onto and smile about, forever.

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.