Quotes About Memory

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

Hi, ' Jake said. 'I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.' 'I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I'd ever say.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.