Memory Quotes

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

Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many things I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

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

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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

Memory feeds imagination.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

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

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

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

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.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.