Motivational Quotes

Memory

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Lewis Carroll

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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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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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

William Shakespeare

24.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Paul, Jean

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Wilde, Oscar

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