Memory Quotes - page 2

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. (Cicero)
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
Time moves in one direction, memory in another. View quote
William Gibson
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. View quote
Albert Finney
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. View quote
Diane Sawyer
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Your memory is a monster; you forget-it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you-and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! View quote
John Irving
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. View quote
Thomas Beecham
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. (George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax)
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. View quote
Lewis Carroll
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. View quote
Bob Dylan
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. View quote
Edward de Bono
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart! View quote
Eliza Cook
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar. View quote
John Henry Newman
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. View quote
Denis Diderot
It takes good memory to keep up a lie. (Pierre Corneille)
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. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory. View quote
Sam Savage