Inspirational Sayings

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.