MEMORY QUOTES

• We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• 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.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• 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 ~
• He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
  ~ T. S. Eliot ~
• Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory out of desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in a forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers.
  ~ T. S. Eliot ~
• Remembering you is easy, Remembering you is traumatizing. Memorizing down memory lane, leaves my heart full of pain. Knowing that times would never be the same, and I'll never get to see you again.
  ~ Jade Oakes ~
• A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
  ~ Richard Russo ~
• I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
  ~ Charlie Kaufman ~
• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
  ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
• Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
  ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
• Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
  ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
• All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
  ~ Toni Morrison ~
• My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
  ~ Haruki Murakami ~
• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
  ~ Andre Maurois ~
• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
  ~ Andre Maurois ~
• Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.
  ~ Paul Davies ~
• History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
  ~ Lord Acton ~
• The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
  ~ Giacomo Casanova ~
• The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
  ~ Giacomo Casanova ~
• As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
  ~ Ayelet Waldman ~
• As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
  ~ Ayelet Waldman ~
• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
  ~ Andre Breton ~
• 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 ~
• In memory everything seems to happen to music.
  ~ Tennessee Williams ~
• Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
  ~ Tennessee Williams ~
• Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
  ~ John Cameron ~
• 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 ~
• When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
  ~ Andre Gide ~
• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
  ~ Denis Diderot ~
• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
  ~ Anatole France ~
• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
  ~ Joseph Conrad ~
• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
  ~ Ang Lee ~
• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
  ~ John Kenneth Galbraith ~
• According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
  ~ Stanislav Grof ~
• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
  ~ Elie Wiesel ~
• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
  ~ Elie Wiesel ~
• I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
  ~ Elie Wiesel ~
• I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
  ~ Sloane Crosley ~
• Resilience of memory
  ~ Didier Mamai ~
• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
  ~ Kurt Cobain ~
• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
  ~ Kurt Cobain ~
• 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 ~
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
  ~ Baltasar Gracian ~
• My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
  ~ John Wooden ~
• There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
  ~ Josh Billings ~
• There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
  ~ Josh Billings ~
• Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
  ~ Leonardo Da Vinci ~
• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
  ~ Audrey Hepburn ~
• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
  ~ Audrey Hepburn ~
• A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
  ~ Elbert Hubbard ~
• A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
  ~ Elbert Hubbard ~
• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
  ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
  ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
  ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
• The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
  ~ Jerry Saltz ~
• 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.
  ~ Jerry Saltz ~
• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
  ~ Victor Hugo ~
• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
  ~ Victor Hugo ~
• Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
  ~ Helen Keller ~
• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
  ~ Helen Keller ~
• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
  ~ Helen Keller ~
• If it doesn't make sense, it's not true, true doesn't need a good memory.
  ~ Panashe Chigwedere ~