Quotes about memory

"It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger."

Will, George F. on memory   

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."

Williams, Tennessee on memory
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."

Williams, Tennessee on memory
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"The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."

Wynne-Tyson, Jon on memory   

"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."

Yourcenar, Marguerite on memory   

"Silently, one by one,in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on memory   

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

Lipsey, Michael on memory   

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on memory
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"i want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldnt brighten her own."

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"I fly through memory to find a newborn love. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on memory   

"When all is lost, there is still a memory. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on memory   

"Oblivion cures the old wounds. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on memory   

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not it's twin."

Kingsolver, Barbara on memory   

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

Michel de Montaigne on memory