A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Memory is everyone's friend -- it leaves you when you need it most.
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.
I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.
My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
The Pavilion did not burn by lightening," she said. He hesitated again. "It holds the memory of fire," he said at last. "Lightening is young and strong and thoughtless, but it could also wish to visit the site of some particular victory of one of its...
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things ar...
Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet ...
This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fire...
Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him." - Gasto...
I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was w...
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly awar...
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.
One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.
