Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Irish

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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Paul, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

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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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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 diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Pope, Alexander

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.