Quotes About Memory

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

The older I get, the faster I was.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about?

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.