Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Haruki Murakami

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Haruki Murakami

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Haruki Murakami

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Haruki Murakami

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

Haruki Murakami

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

Haruki Murakami

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

Haruki Murakami

What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

Haruki Murakami

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.

Haruki Murakami

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Joe Torre

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

Jo Beverley

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

Jimmy Carter

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

John C. Wright

I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person

John C. McGinley

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

James Thurber

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

James Thurber

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.

James Stephens

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

James Packer

I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.

James Patterson

You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified. I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.

James Montgomery

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

James Nachtwey

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

James Martineau

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Emeril Lagasse

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

Ellen Potter

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Edward T. Hall

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Edward de Bono

One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.

Edward de Bono

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward Albee

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.