Motivational Quotes

Memory

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Memory

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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Memories are all we really own.