Quotes About Memory

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.