Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Memory narrativises itself.
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.