Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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

Dante Alighieri

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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

Paul, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Campbell, Don

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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

Bunuel, Luis

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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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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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Pope, Alexander

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will