Quotes About Memory

A good man never dies.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot?

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them!

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

A liar should have a good memory.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

I never forgive, but I always forget.

In memory, everything seems to happen to music.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.