Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thomas Fuller
A mothers happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honor de Balzac
Enduring echoes call out from his past. Time ain't for saving, no time's not for that. Chasing false echoes like a lost legionnaire, He waltzes on memories while he fades like a flare.
James William "Jimmy" Buffett
How many powerful memories are triggered by smell and taste? Your mothers old perfume, the smell your fathers breath, the taste of the soap theyd make you eat.
Derren Victor Brown
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
Albert Camus
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
Samuel Butler
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Milton Cage Jr.