Quotes about Memory
This is the true nature of gratitude. Time gnaws and diminishes all things, but it increases and adds to our good deeds: anytime we have extended a generous hand to a rational human being, that goodness keeps growing and glowing in the man's heart, forever remembered, constantly contemplated.
— Francois Rabelais
Our soul is that part of our being which possesses intelligence, conscience, and memory—the real personality. Your body will die, but your soul lives on. And that soul has a "sixth sense"—the ability to believe, to have faith.
— Billy Graham
First poems! They must be written on casual scraps of faded paper, interspersed here and there with withered flowers, or a lock of blond hair, or a discolored piece of ribbon, and the trace of a tear must still be visible in several places ... But first poems that are printed, in livid black and white, on dreadfully smooth paper are poems that have lost the finest points of their sweet, virginal charm, and now arouse a ghastly feeling of distaste in the author.
— Heinrich Heine
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good." —
— Helen Keller
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
— Thomas a Kempis
Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various and manifold, and exceeding immense.
— St. Augustine
Great is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large and boundless chamber! who ever sounded the bottom thereof? yet is this a power of mine, and belongs unto my nature; nor do I myself comprehend all that I am. Therefore is the mind too strait to contain itself.
— St. Augustine
The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
— Marilyn Monroe
The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.
— Henry Parry Liddon
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frank Sinatra will go on forever.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".
— Deepak Chopra