Quotes About Memory

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me... I think his name is... Homer.

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.