Henry Van Dyke Quotes

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

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

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

Memory. My poison, my food.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

I have a very vivid memory.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.