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Our Memories Quotes

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

Philippa Pearce (2015). “Tom's Midnight Garden”, p.159, Oxford University Press - Children

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

1927 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve '.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

"The riddle of experience vs. memory". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

Song: Trying To Get To Heaven, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

Our memories are independent of our wills.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.10

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Michel de Montaigne, Roger Ariew (1987). “Apology for Raymond Sebond”, p.56, Hackett Publishing

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive”, p.322, Random House

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.550, Delacorte Books for Young Readers