Memory Quotes

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
     - Charles Baudelaire -

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
     - Charles R. Swindoll -

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
     - Charlotte Bronte -

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.
     - Chris Cobbs -

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
     - David Herbert Lawrence -

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
     - David Seamands -

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
     - Denis Diderot -

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
     - Denis Diderot -

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
     - Dietrich Bonhoeffer -

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
     - Doug Larson -

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
     - E. Joseph Cossman –

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
     - Edgar Degas -

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
     - Gilbert Parker -

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
     - Gustave Flaubert -

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
     - Helen Keller -

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
     - Henri Cartier-Bresson -

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
     - Henri Cartier-Bresson -

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
     - Henry David Thoreau -

The leaves of memory seemed to make a mournful rustling in the dark.
     - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
     - Hermann Ebbinghaus -

We must always have old memories and young hopes.
     - Houssaye -

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
     - Iggy Pop -

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
     - Ingrid Bergman -

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
     - Max Muller -

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
     - Max Muller -

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
     - Max Muller -

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
     - Michel de Montaigne -

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
     - Michel de Montaigne -

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
     - Michel de Montaigne -

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
     - Miguel de Unamuno -

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
     - Milan Kundera -

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
     - Milan Kundera -

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
     - Morgan Freeman -

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

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
     - Tom Waits -

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
     - Toni Morrison -

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
     - Tracey Emin –

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
     - Victor Hugo -

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
      - Vladimir Nabokov -

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.
     - Walter Benjamin -

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
     - Warren Zevon -

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
     - Washington Irving -

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
     - Wendell Berry -

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
     - Will Durant -

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
     - Willa Sibert Cather –

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
     - William Faulkner -

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
     - William Gibson -

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
     - William Morris -

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