Memory Quotes

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

Arsene Houssaye

All to myself I think of you Think of the things we used to do Think of the things we used to say Think of each happy bygone day Sometimes I sigh and sometimes I smile But I keep each olden golden while All to myself.

Wilbur D. Nesbit

Women and elephants never forget.

If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.

Bible

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.

If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

If a man can remember what he worried about last week he has a very good memory.

Anonymous

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said or even what we never said will cause laughter even into the next world.

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Alexander Chase

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.

La Rochefoucauld

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Simone Signoret

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

James M. Barrie

To want to forget something is to think of it.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

Sir William Blackstone

To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile And trembl'd with fear at your frown!

English I remember I remember The house where I was born The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

Plutarch

I never forgive but I always forget.

Arthur James Balfour

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.

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

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Charles Dickens

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

George Bernard Shaw

Memory of all the powers of the mind is the most delicate and frail.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

I have a remarkable memory I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

Michel de Montaigne

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture the additional act.

Rainer Maria Rilke

traditions with class and worth, never go out of style....whether you live here or or over thereremember and always instill to that next generationotherwise it is only to be a memory that can only fade and be forgotten

levi paul taylor

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

A person experiences time by traveling through the environment consisting of time and space, and encounters a variety of sense impressions. Time is the combined experience and cataloguing what is taking place now, a recollecting what took place before now, and the anticipation or expectation of a person registering future physical and mental sensations. Time is a happening that will arrive from the future and it will last for about as long as it takes to a person to inhale and exhale one deep bodily breath. In each recognizable segment of time, a person experiences in a thematic breathing cycle a tangible sense perception of either seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, or some combination thereof. Then that distinct morsel of life detected by the physical senses passes from the slipstream of now and lodges into the silted fold of bygone memories.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious.If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details from separate experiences weave together, so that the rememberer thinks of them as having happened together. The actual year or season or time of day shifts to a different one. Many details are lost, usually in ways that serve the self in its present situation, not the self of ten or twenty or forty years ago when the remembered event took place. And even the fresh memory, the 'original,' is not reliable in a documentary sense....Memory, in short, is not a record of the past but an evolving myth of understanding the psyche spins from its engagement with the world.

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

And be thinking, remembering. Trying to. All difficult dark stuff, stories stuffed away, like old socks into old pillowcases. Not quite knowing the weight of truth in them much more. And things that I have let be a long time in the interests of happiness, or at least that daily contentment that I was once I do believe mistress of

Sebastian Barry

I kissed my fingers,held my palm flat beside my mouth and blew it into the air that surrounded her memory. I closed my eyes, thinking this was one of those moments you see in movies or read about in books where everything comes together.

Belinda Jeffrey

He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.

Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

China Miéville

The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

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