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Quotes About Memory

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
~ William Shakespeare
Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity;
~ William Shakespeare
We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.
~ William Shakespeare
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?
~ William Shakespeare
True it is that we have seen better days.
~ William Shakespeare
More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before: The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past
~ William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought...
~ William Shakespeare
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!
~ William Shakespeare
Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe. Remember thee?
~ William Shakespeare
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
~ William Shakespeare
i knew him, Horatio
~ William Shakespeare
A pair of tribunes that have wrecked fair Rome to make coals cheap - a noble memory!
~ William Shakespeare
Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!
~ William Shakespeare
One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.
~ William Shakespeare
Não podeis ministrar algum remédio A um espírito enfermo, e da memória Arrancar-lhe uma dor enraizada, Apagar-lhe os escrúpulos gravados Na alma? Não conheceis algum nepente Capaz de lhe extirpar a um peito inquieto A matéria que pesa insuportável No coração?
~ William Shakespeare
Sebastian says modestly that though his twin resembled him very much , she was reputed to be beautiful. But more importantly, she had a mind that was just and beautiful. she drowned in salt water, leaving sebastian to drown her memories in the salt water of his tears.
~ William Shakespeare
every plan breaks easily, Because the intention is a slave to memory At the moment of birth, it digs itself a grave, Like a fruit, that holds to a branch, while green. And when it matures, it falls itself from the three.
~ William Shakespeare
Pero, ¿cómo es que eso aún vive en tu mente? ¿Qué más ves en el oscuro fondo y abismo del tiempo? (Próspero)
~ William Shakespeare
My oblivion is a very Antony and I am all forgotten.
~ William Shakespeare
But my behavior was really the result of the illness, which had progressed far enough to produce some of its most famous and sinister hallmarks: confusion, failure of mental focus and lapse of memory.
~ William Styron
This memory of my relative indifference is important because such indifference demonstrates powerfully the outsider's inability to grasp the essence of the illness.
~ William Styron
Remember. Oh, remember. How remember moments of forgotten time? Where is the way now (she wondered) through that dark up-spreading wood? Leaf, locust, sunlight in the hollow, all those she had known, all had fled like years. Now silence sounds where no light falls, and she has lost the way.
~ William Styron
What causes human beings to inflict upon themselves these stupid little scissor snips of unhappy remembrance?
~ William Styron
She was determined to put behind her the madness of the past—or as much as a vulnerable and memory-racked mind permitted—
~ William Styron