Quotes on Old Memories

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.