Quotes About Memory

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.