„The poor, short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„"Wouldn't you like to come in and have a cup of tea and dry off?""Lady, don't you realize that we don't even have time to pull up our shorts?""Pull up your shorts?""YES, PULL UP OUR SHORTS!" I screamed at her and walked off into the wall of water.“
— Charles Bukowski
„The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.“
— Herodotus
„Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which he has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love is a taking of man within her, and act of birth and rebirth, of child bearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for a woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment when man rests inside of her.“
— Anaïs Nin
„Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.“
— Lewis Carroll