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Memory Quotes

On what doesn't get forgotten.

A striking idea repeated in this collection is that nature outlasts our decisions, remembering and judging them more fairly than the politicians shaping them, a theme also present in the great collection.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Quotes by Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Quotes by Aeschylus

I have a very bad memory. So I would like a chat bot to just remind me of everything I forget. I spend my entire life on Google trying to remember stuff.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in...

Quotes by Adam Scott

Good Quotes

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to...

Quotes by Adam Rippon

What to do with a leading business that's challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple's willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product's...

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around Mrs. Thatcher's memory that was rooted in theories about economics. They did this because economics is the only...

Quotes by Adam Curtis

I trust anybody's memory more than I trust mine.

Quotes by Ad-Rock

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by...

Abraham Lincoln

Great Quotes

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a...

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Quotes by A. E. Housman

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

Quotes by Zhang Yimou

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was...

Quotes by Yvonne Strahovski

Life Quotes

My favorite holiday memory is making gingerbread houses. It's something I've done with my children since they were born.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing...

Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

Quotes by William Peter Blatty

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Quotes by William Gibson

Man Quotes

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Quotes by Will Self

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about a troubling political administration?
Yes - one is blunt about it: "I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame." Our Man quotes cover more reflections on leadership and power.
Is there a quote personifying nature as having a memory?
Yes - one describes nature almost as a participant in human affairs: "Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." Our Great quotes have more big-picture reflections like this.
Is there a quote defining what literature really is?
Yes, put very simply: "Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory." Our Life quotes explore more on what shapes how we understand our own experiences.
Do more than one of these quotes repeat the same idea?
Yes - two near-identical versions of the same thought about nature having "a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do" appear here, both making the same essential point about nature's lasting judgment.
Where can I find more quotes about looking back on the past?
Our Good quotes have more reflections on memory, legacy, and looking back.

Elsewhere, literature is described simply as memory written down, and one quote voices broader concern about political accountability. Related reflections continue in the good and man collections.