Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886Quotes
Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974