Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Herbert, George

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Benjamin, Walter

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Rogers, Will

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

Dante Alighieri

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.