Quotes About Memory

Students were expected to learn hundreds of lines from the Greek and Roman classics, then, later, from poetry in their native tongues. This tradition has faded from our lives, and something powerful has been lost.

She runs in my blood and beats in my heart; she is part of me, always, so I don't have to picture her to remember her.

Thus, to see all memory as present experience is to collapse the boundaries of this present moment, to free it of illusory limits, to deliver it from the opposites of past vs. future. It becomes obvious that there is nothing behind you in time nor before you in time. You thus have nowhere to stand but in the timeless present, and thus nowhere to stand but in eternity.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

Words have longer lives than people.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

A photograph captures a moment for eternity.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

I will always believe in you. And that's more powerful than memory.

Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.

Before the tears of the eyes dry outLet them sprinkle words on the paper Life is short and the man shall dieBut the words shall live on forever...

Names have power... And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. - Eleanor

No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.