There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel Proust

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William Faulkner

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Richard M. Nixon

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'Amour

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
Lee Trevino

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Elie Wiesel

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Elie Wiesel

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon