You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.
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.