Quotes About Memory

Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations....

That which I have seen, in that little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!

When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.

if you say the truth you don't have to remember anything

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once—not oftener.

But I have never ceased to think of that girl. I have written to her, but I can not direct the epistle because her name is one of those nine-jointed Russian affairs, and there are not letters enough in our alphabet to hold out. I am not reckless enough to try to pronounce it when I am awake, but I make a stagger at it in my dreams

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Mark Twain

If we never lied , there would be nothing to remember.

Vergangenheit ist, wenn es nicht mehr weh tut.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

the quality of certain scraps of verse which take hold of us and stay in our memories, we do not understand why, at first: all the words being the right words, none of them is conspicuous, and so they all seem inconspicuous, therefore we wonder what it is about them that makes their message take hold.

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.

I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.

There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. You have to know it just like A B C.' That was a dismal revelation to me; for my memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

In still earlier years than those I have been recalling, Holliday's Hill, in our town, was to me the noblest work of God. It appeared to pierce the skies. It was nearly three hundred feet high. In those days I pondered the subject much, but I never could understand why it did not swathe its summit with never-failing clouds, and crown its majestic brow with everlasting snows. I had heard that such was the custom of great mountains in other parts of the world.

a good deed ain't ever forgot.

Più divento vecchio, più vividamente ricordo cose che non sono avvenute.

and when I waked up in the morning, drat it all, I had forgot what my name was.

That which I have seen, in that one little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!

Kaybettiklerimin aras?nda, en çok akl?m? özlüyorum. ..

Wenn du die Wahrheit sagst, brauchst du kein gutes Gedächtnis.