Memory Quotes
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What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Love and memory and thought and dream ~My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson
The memory was so vivid that, like a fresh scab, he was sure he would start to bleed if he picked at it.
— Miyuki Miyabe
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
— Barbara Kingsolver
This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you.
— Lauren Barnholdt
Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
— Henry David Thoreau
History is the memory of a nation
— Thomas Sowell
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
— Roger Zelazny
Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time blunts the pain and creates a mist over one's memory - at least in the case of death and sorrow. Other types of pain linger longer.
— Melanie Dickerson
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
For surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to chew it. (Ayesha)
— H. Rider Haggard
Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.
— Cormac McCarthy
The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.
— Cara Black
Growing up, I meant to be a memory.
— Alejandro Zambra
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
— Alastair Reynolds
The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.
— Raymond L. Atkins
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.
— David Foster Wallace
Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
— Alain De Botton
Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.
— Justin Somper
The mists of nostalgia color memory.
— Ken Tucker
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
— George Eliot
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.
— John O'Donohue
Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
— Ninon De L'Enclos
He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well.
— Daniel Levine
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
— Eduardo Galeano
The past is more than a memory.
— John Trudell
Time is just memoryMixed in with Desire. — Tom Waits
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
— Michel De Montaigne
But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.
— Diane Meier
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
— Aubrey De Vere
I can't scrape that memory off the inside of my skull fast enough!
— Karen Marie Moning
One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.
— Angela Lam Turpin
I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.
— Catherine Lacey
Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby's smile.
— Debasish Mridha
Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
— William Shakespeare
Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.
— Tzvetan Todorov
Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep.
— Roshani Chokshi
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
— Amitav Ghosh
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
— Georges Didi-Huberman
When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
— Ann Brashares
She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation.
— Peter Watts
I know you don't have access to that memory yet, but I don't think it's something I can just tell you. It means too much to me, I guess.
— Courtney Allison Moulton
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
— James Russell Lowell
Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
— Joyce Rachelle
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
— Tom Heinsohn
Humans make art to remember and be remembered," said Caius. "Art is their weapon against forgetting.
— Melissa Grey
Memory at last has what I sought.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.
— Josiah Royce
There is no greater pain or punishment than memory.
— Victoria Aveyard
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
— David Wenham
I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
— Kate Christensen
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
— Clifton Fadiman
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
— Leo Tolstoy
Pre-Cambrian Memory.
— John Steinbeck
Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want.
— Rainbow Rowell
Scent is the strongest tie to memory.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.
— Conor Oberst
Love is inaudible - until you hear it. And once you do, you'll never forget the sound of her voice.
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Any time gone by was better.
— Jorge Manrique
Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.
— John Steinbeck
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
— Penelope Lively
I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting
— Jude Morgan
As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present.
— Robert Galbraith
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.
— Michael Jackson
In memory Venice is always magic.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
— Pat Conroy
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
— Richard Eyre
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
— Giovanni Ruffini
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
— Nicolas Chamfort
There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.
— Thomas Pynchon
Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
— Alexis De Tocqueville