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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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Best Quotes about Memory

1.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Fulghum, Robert

2.
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
Wynne-Tyson, Jon

3.
Lord, keep my memory green.
Dickens, Charles

4.
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

5.
Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.
Santmyer, Helen Hoover

6.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Forster, Edward M.

7.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Fadiman, Clifton

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Aristotle

11.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Porchia, Antonio

12.
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

13.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Smith, Alexander

14.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri

15.
Never forget what you need to remember.
Bartley, Garrett

16.
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Coward, Noel

18.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Don't remember what you can infer.
Tennant, Harry

23.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

24.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Williams, Tennessee

25.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Chase, Alexander

26.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Huxley, Aldous

27.
If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Twain, Mark

28.
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

29.
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Cicero, Marcus T.

30.
You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
Rogers, Will

31.
It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Kingsolver, Barbara

32.
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

33.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Lewis Carroll

34.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Fuller, Thomas

35.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Thoreau, Henry David

36.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
Benjamin, Walter

37.
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
Basile

38.
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

39.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

40.
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
William Shakespeare

41.
People tend to remember my performances, not me.
Barkin, Ellen

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Michel de Montaigne

46.
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

47.
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
Morrison, Blake

48.
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

49.
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
Byron, Lord

50.
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
Proverb, Irish


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