Our Memories Quotes - Page 8

• I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Believe, Soul

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

  Nita Leland

  Art, Memories, Book

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

  Eva Heller

  Memories, Long, Common

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• If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

  Allen Grossman

  Memories, Fate, People

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• Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Real, Feel Good

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• When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

  Garrison Keillor

  Memories, Exercise, May

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• If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would be only you and your memories, the choices you've made and the people you've touched.

  Katharine Ross

  Meaningful, Memories, Sky

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• Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

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• Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

  John Irving

  Memories, Monsters, Doe

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Book, Hands

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, People, Cocktail Parties

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.

  Peter Zumthor

  Memories, Essence, Feelings

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• So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

  T. S. Eliot

  Dog, Memories, Cat

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Believe, I Believe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.344

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• I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

  Peter Orner

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Summer's the same, autumn is even more extreme. Then winter is when you sort of condense all of your ideas. You process all these things and you try to look for new concepts. In that sense, your intuition is in hibernation. What you fill up is your imagination; you fill up your memories there.

  Rene Redzepi

  Memories, Autumn, Winter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

  Thomas Browne

  Memories, Expectations, Duration

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.43

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• Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Memories, Humble

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• [Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

  Laura Esquivel

  Memories, Powerful, Lying

  Laura Esquivel (2001). “Swift as Desire: A Novel”, Crown Pub

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• Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

  Craig Clevenger

  Memories, Past, Way

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• The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Exercise, Doors

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage

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• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Life, Memories, Remembrance

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Syntax, Coherence

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• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Passion, Vanity

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “Selected Works of Joseph Conrad”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

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• there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Memories, Lying, Past

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.88, Canongate Books

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