Quotes About Memory

In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.

Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.

La scortesia della gente ferisce solo se continuiamo a ricordarla.

Absence never makes the heart grow fonder because those who are out of sight are out of mind.

Experience is as effective a teacher as a woman because one does tend to remember her lessons.

For me, the person whose thoughts are still spoken is never dead.

Memory is life's clock and clock is life's moments.

Question to you – who will remember you after you are dead?

The benefit of good thoughts in life is that even if they are forgotten they don't perish.

To love is to remember. If you are forgotten, you are dead.

We always remember our faults when they are known to people.

All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life— this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone?

If we die, said Louis, I want to die in the doorway of Tad's Steakhouse.

Garretson recalled that he drank four beers, smoked two joints

Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in their deliberations.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last forever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last for ever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

O never think the dead are dead, So long as there are men alive, The dead will live, the dead will live." That's how I feel it. Nothing sadder than that.

sometimes, the past should not only be forgotten, it should be destroyed.

I can't remember my PIN number for my debit card or my Facebook password. The digital age sucks sometimes.

Les morts font de ceux qui restent des fabricateurs de récits.

But…" said the lion "you had told us that elephants never jump…"."I know…" said the elephant shyly "But I forgot".