“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten”

“Sometimes I wonder if our memories are as good as we think they are and if the whole past wasn’t once entirely different from anything we remember, and we’ve forgotten that we forgot.”

Fritz Leiber book The Big Time

“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”

Joan Didion book Blue Nights

“A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

“All that we can remember is almost nothing. Memory is greater than we are, but memory is living and mortal as well.”

Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist

“Don’t you remember the days
Of the old schoolyard
When we had imaginings and we had
All kinds of things and we laughed
And needed love … yes, I do
Oh and I remember you”

Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter

“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.”

Borís Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian writer

“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

“We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)