Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Never, ever forget history.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

I have a great memory.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Books are embalmed minds.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

What you remember saves you.