Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her 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

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

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

10.

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

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Bumper Sticker

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

20.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

21.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

22.

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

23.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

26.

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.

27.

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

Pavese, Cesare

28.

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

29.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

33.

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

37.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Benjamin, Walter

39.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

40.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

41.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

42.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

43.

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

44.

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

45.

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

Basile

46.

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

Proverb, Irish

47.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

48.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

49.

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

Bunuel, Luis

50.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen