Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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

Pavese, Cesare

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Herbert, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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

Dante Alighieri

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Lewis Carroll

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Shakespeare, William

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Didion, Joan

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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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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb