Quotes about Memory

And I'd stand there trying to see it, the way you try to remember a dream, where you squint and it's right there on the tip of your psychic tongue but you can't get it back. The image is gone. That is one of the worst feelings I can think of, to have had a wonderful moment or insight or vision or phrase, to know you had it, and then to lose it.

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Love is natural; but surely pity and faithfulness and memory are natural too. And they would live in me still, and punish me if I did not obey them. I should be haunted by the suffering I had caused. Our love would be poisoned.