Quotes About Memory

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

It is the doom of men that they forget.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets---a man by what a woman remembers.