“Does it not move you strangely, the love-bird's cry, tonight when, like the drifting snow, memory piles up on memory?”

— Murasaki Shikibu, book The Tale of Genji

Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 20: Asagao

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Murasaki Shikibu24

Japanese novelist, poet during the Heian period. best known… 973–1014

Roy Turk (1892–1934) American songwriter

Song Are You Lonesome Tonight?

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

William Gibson book Distrust That Particular Flavor

"Dead Man Sings," published in Forbes ASAP, November 30, 1998.
Source: Distrust That Particular Flavor

“Birds in which spatial memory is particularly important”

Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist

In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: Birds in which spatial memory is particularly important—those that store food at a large number of sites, for example—have larger hippocampuses than other birds.... London taxi drivers have a larger hippocampus than others the same age.... the size of their hippocampus continues to increase with time on the job.