Memory Quotes

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Cicero

Colette

Michel de Montaigne

Elie Wiesel

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Franklin Pierce Adams

Anna Akhmatova

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Poetry does not necessarily have to be beautiful to stick in the depths of our memory...

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

The gift from those I loved so tenderly added more and more impulse to my deeply seated love of the beautiful and from the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to be as a living thing, with voice and memory and memory and creative vigour.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Anthony Bourdain

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward. The one is of today, the other is of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!

They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Benoît Mandelbrot

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever really lost.

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel