Memory Quotes

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

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Women and elephants never forget.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

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

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

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

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.

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.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints."

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

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

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

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

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

A liar should have a good memory.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

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

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

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

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

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.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

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.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

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.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

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