Quotes About The Memory

#1. Nonetheless the memory of you stayed with me, and I had no doubt whatever whom I ought to cling to, though I knew that I was not yet capable of clinging, because the perishable body weighs down the soul, and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. We're friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don't know where it comes from) that we're born strangers and that the memory of how that feels never really leaves us.

Helen Oyeyemi

#3. I've seen all I need to. I'm going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.

Richelle Mead

#4. Endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements.

Diane Setterfield

#5. Something about the memory caused him to tear up, to think again about the unknowable nature of the people we love.

Jess Walter

#6. To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Lou Reed

#7. Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.

Hartley Coleridge

#8. The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#9. Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?

Laura Lam

#10. The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#11. It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

Seneca The Younger

#12. The ache in his heart returned. Not an intense pain, but the memory of intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#13. A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14. He was the friend of the king, who honored highly, as everyone knows, the memory of his father, Henry IV.

Alexandre Dumas

#15. The remoteness of a thing is in proportion rather to the visual power of the memory that is looking at it than to the real interval of the intervening days,

Marcel Proust

#16. Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Alastair Reynolds

#17. It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

Bernhard Schlink

#18. Sometimes the memory of horror is worse than the horror itself.

Claudia Gray

#19. I was pretty fruity based solely on my appreciation for Nick Carter." "You even had those fucking trading cards," I said, smiling at the memory. "You were a lame kid.

Santino Hassell

#20. I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

Christina Baker Kline

#21. Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What

Terry Pratchett

#22. For the story that shapes a child's universe also shapes the child - and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a burning fairy tale can govern behavior as truly as remembered fire will caution against fire forever. - WALTER WANGERIN

Sarah Arthur

#23. Even today, the memory of Ribbon Creek influences the way new recruits are handled - not with kid gloves, but with respect for their safety and dignity. This too is part of the Marine ethos: to take care of their brother and sister Marines.

Tom Clancy

#24. I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

Edward Everett

#25. Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

Brassai

#26. In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#27. Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing to be remembered. But everyday their memories get fewer, less intense. Certain aspects of the memory will become dishevelled, twisted into a form unrecognisable. Until finally the person still at the centre of your world moves on and all you can do is watch

Stacey Field

#28. But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#29. Letter from Griffith-- "I know it is difficult, but do work harder to control yourself. Mother was beside herself with worry when she found you rolling on the floor laughing over a book you were reading."
The memory brought a curve to Miranda's lips. It had been a very funny book.

Kristi Ann Hunter

#30. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Ned Rorem

#31. No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

#32. Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Christian Dior

#33. The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.

George Carlin

#34. The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#35. I believe ... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

William Butler Yeats

#36. We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

Laura Dave

#37. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

Edgar Allan Poe

#38. It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

Bob Kane

#39. Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

Ellen Glasgow

#40. When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

Margaret Mahy

#41. The room was empty. It was full of silence and the memory of a nice perfume.

Raymond Chandler

#42. It was, Eliza Hamilton Holly noted pointedly, the imperative duty that Eliza had bequeathed to all her children: Justice shall be done to the memory of my Hamilton.

Ron Chernow

#43. When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?

Joanna Russ

#44. But then the memory - not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived and might now very possibly be - would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being, from which I could never have escaped by myself:

Marcel Proust

#45. What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

Rachel L. Schade

#46. There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness ... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

Andrew Jackson

#47. It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.

Vasily Grossman

#48. The memory of a book, Dana mused as she turned off the light and headed out of the room. Wouldn't life be so easy if that's all we needed to feel comforted?

Juliette Fay

#49. Here is America Now: smoke, greasy fumes, the friction of tire rubber, the memory of terrifying refineries with their rubbery rotten-egg smells.

Robert D. Kaplan

#50. You stuck up for yourself and then you stuck up for the memory of your brother. You didn't take any shit, not even a little of it." His face dipped close and he whispered, "That's not unattractive, baby. That's beautiful.

Kristen Ashley

#51. But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams.

Heinrich Heine

#52. It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. 'But

Raymond E. Feist

#53. I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.

Gordon Parks

#54. I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

Brenda Ueland

#55. Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.

Terry Pratchett

#56. The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

John Locke

#57. In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#58. Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Henry David Thoreau

#59. I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting
of murdering the memory.

Caryl Phillips

#60. That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

Holly Black

#61. I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

Philippe Falardeau

#62. A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli

#63. The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

Ferenc Molnar

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

Leopold Von Ranke

#65. The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole scale of values.

Fynn

#66. Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?

Marian Keyes

#67. The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.

David Foster Wallace

#68. The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#69. It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.

Joaquin Lowe

#70. Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

David Simon

#71. Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Leonid Andreyev

#72. Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Rudy Wiebe

#73. For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away ... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

Ally Condie

#74. The memory and maybe the fact of every kiss start disappearing the moment the two mouths part.

Sarah Manguso

#75. All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

D.H. Lawrence

#76. The greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only with the memory of what you left behind, but with the ghosts of all the untaken paths, now never to be taken, running parallel.

Paul Murray

#77. The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

Jessamyn West

#78. The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward ...

Pope Francis

#79. When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

Sharon Salzberg

#80. At this point, there flashed briefly through Stenton's horrified mind the memory of that timeless classic, H. G. Wells's "The Star." He had first read it as a small boy, and it had helped to spark his interest in astronomy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#81. The physical body can crave sleep with an animal greed, as everybody knows. Then it is snappish when it is disturbed, as I would have been if I hadn't had the memory, at least, of praying for tranquillity.

Marilynne Robinson

#82. Of course, a blow job given in friendship isn't the most arousing, but it stays in the memory longer.

Bruce Benderson

#83. It had given her pleasure to do things for him in his lifetime, and now it was a pleasure to do things for his memory. But the memory of a father went only so far.

Alexander McCall Smith

#84. I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin.

Helene Cardona

#85. It's not soft. It's not sweet. It's something wild and three long years in the making. A kiss that purges the memory of all other kisses before him.

A. Zavarelli

#86. Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

James Russell Lowell

#87. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.

Luther E. Vann

#88. They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off.

Jamie Schoffman

#89. In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

James Weldon Johnson

#90. My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#91. The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.

Mireille Guiliano

#92. Love is the only memory one never loses, Isaac." His father had said. "Because even if one loses his mind the memory always remains in the heart.

Felix Alexander

#93. And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.

William Carlos Williams

#94. I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Louis C.K.

#95. I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

Don Bluth

#96. I closed my eyes. I dragged the memory of that day out of the darkness of time. I stepped through it, in my head, blurred image by blurred image, until finally, I saw it.

Jan Ellison

#97. The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

George Eliot

#98. And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

T. S. Eliot

#99. There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed.

Nuala O'Faolain

#100. I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric ...

John Dryden