Memory Quotes

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Memory

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated mem

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

Memory Amnesia

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

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

Robert Benchley

Memory

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because i

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Elizabeth Bowen

Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the nig

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

Memory

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.

Memory

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in

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

Memory

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Memory

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your min

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Memory

The difference between false memories and true ones is the s

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.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, u

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.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Memory

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamor

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

Memory

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

Edgar Allan Poe

Memory

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

Memory

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

George Bernard Shaw

Memory

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memo

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

James Branch Cabell

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