Quotes About Memory

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

There is a history in all men's lives.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

Women mostly remember the men who made them laugh, and men - only the women who made them cry.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.

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

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.