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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson
US ecologist (1907 - 1964)

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

John Updike
US author (1932 - )

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

J.M. Barrie

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

Arsene Houssaye

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard?s Almanac (1758)
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Salvador Dali
Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter (1904 - 1989)

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9
English novelist (1819 - 1880)

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
US science fiction author & screenwriter (1934 - )

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold"

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Lily Langtry
British actress (1853 - 1929)

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barry

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

James M. Barrie
Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937)

Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974)

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Author Unknown

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