memory Quotes

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

I'm attracted to the past.

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.