#memory

Explore Books, Authors and Common Highlights on Memory

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Soundscapes shape our memories and influence our perceptions of places.

From The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox

Scent has the power to transport us to another place and time.

From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr

Every breath is a reminder of the past.

From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

The walls held memories of lives lived and lost.

From The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Patient Hospital by Dan Baum

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then.

From The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The brain is not a computer; it is a structure that learns and remembers.

From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins

I feel like I have been living in the past.

From The Stranger by Albert Camus

A great perfume is one that evokes a memory.

From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr

We are not only our memories, we are also the stories we tell ourselves.

From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

From The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean

Nothing is ever truly forgotten, and nothing is ever truly lost.

From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Every piece of art tells a story that deserves to be remembered.

From The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago.

From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I have not only a past, but a future, and I can see it as well as I can see the present.

From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Ownership is a set of rules that governs how a Rust program manages memory.

From The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols

History is not just what happened; it is what we remember.

From The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

From The I Ching or Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm (Translator)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

From The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

You can’t make the same mistake twice unless you remember it.

From Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin

The past is something that you can never grasp.

From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Our memories are not records but rather creative reconstructions.

From The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean

Old trees are like libraries; they hold memories of the past.

From The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

From One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The brain is like a record player; it can only play back what has been recorded.

From Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The past is not a fixed piece of history but a fluid construct.

From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

The past is always present, and the future is still to come.

From The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood