Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Didion, Joan

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Proverb, Irish

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Rogers, Will

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

25.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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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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

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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

Dante Alighieri

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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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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