All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Memories”

“In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the pastâ€”sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.”
“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.”
“To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.”
“Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.”
“Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.”
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
“As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.”

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