#memory

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known; as a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or even the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; and which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened, for no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall them. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#memory #tenderness #dreams

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory. ↗

— Anne Spollen

#emotions #landscape #memory #rooms #biography

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#good #good health #happiness #health #memory

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#life #memory #faith

I have a great memory. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#i #memory

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#exists #genetic #individual #lives #memory

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#been #computer #enough #everywhere #get

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#attained #begin #circumstance #commence #earliest

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#life #long #memory #nation