Quotes About Memory

I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Nay, cried Bingley, this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Recuerde sólo en el pasado aquello que le sea grato.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero.

Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by - unless some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness, and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory.

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.

More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached it's close; and time had softened down much, perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him,- but she had been to dependent on time alone; no aid had been given in change of place, or in novelty or enlargement of society.- No one had ever come within the Kellynch circle, who could bear a comparison with Frederick Wentworth, as he stood in her memory.

She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

Si entonces no se acerca a mí, pensaba, me olvidaré de él para siempre.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Piensa solo en el pasado cuando su recuerdo sea placentero.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

No consigo olvidar las locuras y los vicios de otros tan pronto como debiera, ni las ofensas que se me hacen. Mis sentimientos no se modifican cad vez que se intenta influir sobre ellos. Quizá pueda decirse que tiendo al resentimiento. Cuando pierdo mi buena opinión sobre alguien o algo, perdido está para siempre

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero. –No

He gave her to understand that he had looked at her with some earnestness. She knew it well; and she remembered another person's look also.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives your pleasure.

in some cases)... a good memory is unpardonable

We will know where we have gone - we will recollect what we have seen.