Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
— William Shakespeare
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then…. At every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
— T. S. Eliot
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
— Marcel Proust
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
— Mark Twain
When we recall an event, the brain reactivates the network of neurons that were involved during encoding. This reactivation is not perfect. Like an artist repainting from memory….
— The Science Desk
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
