M Quotes
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“Memory is not the past. It is the echo of the stars we lost, Between the stars there is silence, and in that silence we hear our own hearts most clearly.” — Ismael S. Rodríguez Jr.”
Source: The Stars That Weren’t For Me: A Boy’s Journey Through Love, Silence, and Stolen Stars
“Memory is not what the heart desires.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Memory is not wisdom ; idiots can rote volumes :
Yet, what is wisdom without memory ? a babe that is strangled in its birth ;
The path of the swallow in the air ; the path of the dolphin in the waters ;
A cask running out ; a bottomless chasm : such is wisdom without memory.
There be many wise, who cannot store their knowledge ;
Yet from themselves are they satisfied, for the fountain is within :”
Source: Proverbial philosophy
“Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?”
“Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.”
“Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.”
“Memory is proof that imagination is a real place.”
Source: Thrust
“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.”
“Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
Source: Invisible Cities
“Memory is reminiscence
of few last moments,
It can make you nostalgic on things that never happened.”
Source: Fragments of Nothingness
“Memory is satisfied desire.”
“Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.”
“Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.”
Source: White Cat
“Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.”
Source: The Post-office Girl
“memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.”
Source: Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon
“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.”
“Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.”
Source: Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
“Memory is the architecture of self.”
Source: Recallen: Entry Wound
“Memory is the art of forgetting.”
Source: Die Welt voran
“Memory is the basis of every journey.”
Source: Dreamcatcher: A Novel
“Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.”
“Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.”
“Memory is the enemy of wonder”
Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
“Memory is the essential cornerstone of humanity. There would be no spiritual platform for enactment of public policy directed at uplifting the poor without remembrance of our munificent traditions and customs. Without the ability to recollect the why and wherefores, there would be no tolerance or wondrous love. Without oral memories of the instructions issued by our prophets and patriarchs, there would be no reminder of their charitable calling. Memories prompt us magnanimously to provide for and protect our family, love our neighbors and enemies, and pray for unsavory souls whom persecute us. Without memories of our prior actions and omissions, there would be no confession, and no repentance. Without memories of our personal transgressions, there would be no tolerance for other people. Without memories of heroic action of our predecessors, there would be no sterling examples to exemplify and guide honorable human behavior. Memories are what we rely upon to understand what it means to be human. Shared memories of affection and kindness and recollections of selfless acts fuse the ties of families. Collective memories establish community culture.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Memory is the fabric of time.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Memory is the fabric upon which time is carved.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Memory is the fire that drives the artist in the soul.”
“Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.”
“Memory is the first lamp you light when all the others have gone out.”
“Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.”
“Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.”
“Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.”
“Memory is the happiness of being alone.”
Source: Anastasia Krupnik Stories
“Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.”
“Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.”
“Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.”
“Memory is the only friend of grief.”
Source: China Court
“Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.”
“memory is the only way home.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.”
“Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge”