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Our Memories Quotes (page 3)

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. Jon Wynne-Tyson
Angela Carter quote: "Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies..."
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. Angela Carter
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Jorge Luis Borges
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. George A. Smith
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into..."
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Miguel de Unamuno
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Thomas Fuller
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is... Salman Rushdie
Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory. Daniel Goleman
Rosa Parks quote: "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will..."
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Rosa Parks
Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best. P. D. James
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Alice Munro
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. Mark Twain
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. Isabel Allende
Erich Maria Remarque quote: "Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And..."
Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness. Erich Maria Remarque

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