#memory

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#memory #repeat #rote #volumes #wisdom

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#designed #hold #magnet #material #memory

She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace. ↗

— Stephen King

#memory #nostalgia #movies

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#music #music

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot. ↗

— Roman Payne

#memory #roman

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. ↗

— Brian Ruckley

#loss #memory #mourning #moving-on #mourning

The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map. ↗

— Fern Schumer Chapman

#memoir #memory #mothers #holocaust

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die. ↗

— Fern Schumer Chapman

#memory #scent #smell #holocaust

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#memory #judgement