Memory Quotes And Sayings

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“Memory is what tells a man that his wife’s birthday was yesterday.” 
– Mario Rocco

“Memory is not wisdom; idiots can rote volumes.”
– Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” 
– Michel de Montaigne

“He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”
– Mildred Cram

“The memory is a treasurer to whom we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need.”
– Nicholas Rowe

“Alzheimer’s … it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
– P.D. James

“Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow.”
– Philip Moeller

“Memory is a child walking along a seashore.  You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.” 
– Pierce Harris

“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.”
– Rachel Carson

“And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses – would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?” 
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“Our memories are independent of our wills.”
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.”
– Robert Aris Willmott

“No canvas absorbs color like memory.”
– Robert Aris Willmott

“Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me.  Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.” 
– Robert Brault

“The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.”
– Robert Brault

“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.”
– Salvador Dali

“The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.” 
– Samuel Johnson

“Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.”
– Samuel Johnson

“The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.” 
– Samuel Johnson

“Everybody needs his memories.  They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” 
– Saul Bellow

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
– Seneca

“Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.”
– Sir Aubrey de Vere

“Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.”
– Sir James Matthew Barrie

“I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.”
– Stefan Zweig

“Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.”
– Stefan Zweig

“Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.”
– Stephen King

“A person’s memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It’s you.”
– Stephen King

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