Memory Quotes

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God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Memory

Come to me in the silence of the night, Come to me in the sp

Come to me in the silence of the night, Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.Come back in tears,O memory, hope, love of finished years.

Christina Rossetti

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and p

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can eras

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

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a trut

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

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memor

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Imagination Memory Intelligence

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like

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.

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Memory

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed

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.

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is al

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

Helen Hoover Santmyer

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the la

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Life Memory

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven,

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

John Lancaster Spalding, Aphoris

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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve th

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

Memory

Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls y

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

Lactantius Firmianus

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Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Freedom Memory Forgetfulness

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries.

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Memory

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Memory