We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way. — Elizabeth Loftus
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. — William Faulkner
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. — Harold Pinter
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. — J. G. Ballard
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar
Short Memories Recall Quotes
Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma. — Victor Hugo
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. — Steven Wright
Memories have to be our most painful blessing. — Kanye West
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. — Barbara Kingsolver
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. — Mark Twain
Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time. — Michio Kushi
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. — Paul Auster
Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos
Memories Recall Image Quotes
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Old Memories Quotes
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. — Angela Carter
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — Erich Maria Remarque
It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face. — Wilson Rawls
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops. — Rick Rubin
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. — Ricky Nelson
It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. — Matthew Walker
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. — Xavi
Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. — Richard Kadrey
My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing. — Jake Paul
The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers. — Rachel Vincent
Recollection Quotes
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. — William Wordsworth
You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories! — Joel Osteen
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman. — Horatio Nelson
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence. — Alphonsus Liguori
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. — Edmund Barton
Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here. — Joe McNally
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. — Elizabeth Loftus
Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God. — Madeleine Delbrel
All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right. — William Butler Yeats
Memories Remain Quotes
How people die remains in the memory of those who live on — Cicely Saunders
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. — Doc Hastings
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. — Harlan Ellison
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color — William Bolitho
We remain young to the degree that our ambitions are greater than our memories. — Dan Sullivan
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place. — Marcel Proust
Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper. — Haruki Murakami
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. — Philip Gourevitch
Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Memories Dreams Reflections Quotes
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. — Carl Jung
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — Carl Jung
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." — Carl Jung
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul. — Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. — Carl Jung
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him. — Carl Jung
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. — Carl Jung
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. — Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung
Vivid Memories Quotes
[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration. — Edwin Land
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today. — Jim Davis
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. — Sister Parish
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. — Steven Pinker
How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past. — Jackie Kay
You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident. — Isaac Marion
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination. — Susan Kay
Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. — John Irving
I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape. — James Vincent McMorrow
Childhood Memories Quotes
I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side. — Akira Toriyama
Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life. — Jake Paul
I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it. — Akira Toriyama
When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child. — Akira Toriyama
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else. — Vitalik Buterin
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. — Vitalik Buterin
What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. — River Phoenix
I may not be ‘the prettiest’ or have ‘big boobies,’ but I want people to remember me as the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I want to be remembered for just being myself and doing what I want to do. — KSI
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. — Mariska Hargitay
Past Memories Quotes
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. — Buddha
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn. — Brendon Urie
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. — Deborah Moggach
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert M. Pirsig
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. — Lewis B. Smedes
The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present. — Jack Kornfield
The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground? — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Favorite Memories Quotes
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship. — Louis Bacon
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads. — Ahmet Zappa
My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger. — Eli Manning
Some of my favorite memories happened in the Boy Meets World classroom. — Danielle Fishel
Favorite People, Favorite Places,
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke
I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory. — Melanie Martinez
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it. — Rumer Godden
I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something. — Martin Lawrence
My favorite thing about partying together is sharing the memories. — Andrew W.K.
Painful Memories Quotes
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. — Angela Merkel
People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane. — Kid Cudi
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
Our brains replay every painful memory from the past and every possible scary scenario from the future over and over, just like a complex computer simulation, in an attempt to scare us away from threats before they can happen and regardless of the probability of their happening at all. — Mo Gawdat
Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love . — John Gray
Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. — Johann Baptist Metz
I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever. — Natsuki Takaya
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. — Sophia Loren
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds. — Erin Morgenstern
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones — Cassandra Clare
Nutrition significantly impacts mental function, memory, and emotional state, influencing the memories we recall and the ones projected into our consciousness. — Gary Brecka
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! — John Irving
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri. — Peter Matthiessen
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness? — Judith McNaught
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground . — Pete Docter
Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails. — James Cook
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. — Edgar Allan Poe
When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club — Robert Pires
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little. — Rachel Carson
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. — Ernst Mach
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall. — Anna Quindlen
You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times. — Robert Breault
To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory. — Gretchen Rubin
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That whole day [ of the space flight] is very vividly impressed on my memory because it was such a new experience. We hadn't done that before. And then I've recalled it so often since then I think that it's a - it's remained very vivid over the past 50 years, seems to me like about a week or two instead of 50 years. — John Glenn
When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep. — Lesley Kagen
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. — Gretchen Rubin
Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts. — Doreen Virtue
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love. — Carl Jung
I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children. — Sayings
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them. — Douglas Fairbanks
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye. — Peter Russell
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction. — Johnson
Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again. — E. L. Doctorow
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. — Rotarian
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. — Gary Ryan Blair
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! — John Irving
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory. — Zhang Yimou
Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves. — Natasha Gregson Wagner
The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them. — Kevin Starr
It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work. — Pete Docter
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. So, you know, if you remember from when you were, you know, in second grade and there was Christmas and you got a present from your grandfather and your mom was wearing a red dress, that may or may not all have happened. — Pete Docter
I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall. — M. Ward
My photographs recall the memories of the human race. — John Coplans
I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation. — Marge Piercy
Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. — Cormac McCarthy
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