Quotes About Memory

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

The past is a funeral gone by.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

As the dew to the blossom, the bud to the bee, As the scent to the rose, are those memories to me.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, love.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

The past is our very being.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rain.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

April is the crudest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

Words once spoken, can never be recalled.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.