Quotes About Memory

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.


We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese


Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers


Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ~Seneca


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



Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ~ Aeschylus


Every man's memory is his private literature. ~ Aldous Leonard Huxley



A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.



Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. ~ Thomas Carlyle


Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero


The true art of memory is the art of attention. ~ Dr Samuel Johnson


The heart that truly loves never forgets. ~ Proverb quotes


Memory is the library of the mind. ~ Francis Fauvel


Liars need good memories. ~ French Proverb quotes


Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not. ~ Susan Spano



Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~ Kevin Arnold


A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ~ Cardinal John Henry Newman


Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman


A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses


A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

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