Quotes about Memory
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
— Carl Jung
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I wish to go on living even after my death.
— Anne Frank
I want to go on living even after death
— Anne Frank
I want to go on living even after my death!
— Anne Frank
And I'd stand there trying to see it, the way you try to remember a dream, where you squint and it's right there on the tip of your psychic tongue but you can't get it back. The image is gone. That is one of the worst feelings I can think of, to have had a wonderful moment or insight or vision or phrase, to know you had it, and then to lose it.
— Anne Lamott
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
— Milan Kundera
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
— John F. Kennedy
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
— John Keats
Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.
— John Frame
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.
— Mary Nightingale