Memory Quotes

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that

Mitch Albom, The Five People You

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.

Blaise Pascal

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

John Green

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Mark Twain

Memories are all we really own.

Elias Lieberman

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Michel de Montaigne

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Will Rogers

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buechner

We worry about losing our memory, yet there are things we wish we could forget.

Michael Lipsey

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Walter Benjamin

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

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Martha Gellhorn

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!

John Irving

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

Stephen King

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

Thomas Merton

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain