W. H. Auden Quotes

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

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

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

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

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

I love nostalgia.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

Yesterday is just a memory.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

People forget years and remember moments.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

What does it remember like?

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.