Memory Quotes, Sayings about Memories

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief – Aeschylus.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory – Albert Schweitzer.

Every man’s memory is his private literature – Aldous Huxley.

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was – Anne Sexton.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart – Antoine Rivarol.

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food – Austin O’Malley.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin – Barbara Kingsolver.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be – Bob Dylan.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory – C.S. Lewis.

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges – Dante G. Roque.

I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future – David Gerrold.

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us – David Seamans.

I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact – Diane Sawyer.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails – Donna Roberts.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen – Edward de Bono.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart – Eliza Cook.

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

Memory itself is an internal rumour – George Santayana.

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

In memory’s telephoto lens, far objects are magnified – John Updike.

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December – J.M. Barrie.

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart’s desire – John Dewey.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory – Josh Billings.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream – Kahlil Gibran.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory – Leonardo da Vinci.

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards – Lewis Carroll.

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

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything – Mark Twain.

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

“‘I have done that”, says my memory. “I cannot have done that” — says my pride, and remains adamant. At last — memory yields – Nietzsche.

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory – Oscar Wilde.

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

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.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age – Robert Frost.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom – 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.

In memory everything seems to happen to music – Tennessee Williams.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again – Willa Cather.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders – William Faulkner.

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