„I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.“

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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„The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense—which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Does it not move you strangely, the love-bird's cry, tonight when, like the drifting snow, memory piles up on memory?“
— Murasaki Shikibu
„And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.“
— Terry Pratchett
„People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Such an irreconcilable antagonism of course must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. It is the opposition of Past and Future, of Memory and Hope, of the Understanding and the Reason. It is the primal antagonism, the appearance in trifles of the two poles of nature.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson