Memory Quotes

1. There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. HAROLD PINTER, Old Times
2. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. LEWIS CARROLL, Alice Through the Looking Glass
3. Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, The Irrational Knot
4. The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Strong Opinions
5. The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter. CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
6. In memory everything seems to happen to music. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie
7. We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory. EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present
8. Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
9. Memory is the mother of all wisdom. AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound
10. I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time. EDWARD ALBEE, Three Tall Women
11. What an insidious drug memory can be. Especially the memory of unhappiness. HORACE HOLLEY, His Luck