Welcome to our collection of memory quotes! Memory is a powerful aspect of human experience, shaping our lives and allowing us to cherish moments from the past. Whether it’s the recollection of a heartwarming childhood memory, the ability to remember important information, or the nostalgia that comes with revisiting the past, memory plays a significant role in our daily lives. In this curated selection of quotes, we explore the profound nature of memory and its impact on our journey through life. Feel free to explore these quotes, copy them for your own use, place them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to share and commemorate the beauty of memory.
Memory doesn’t come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space. Jacqueline Woodson
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. Percy Bysshe Shelley
To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory. Ozzy Osbourne
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
Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a photo as a way to go back to a memory if I ever needed to. Rachel Morrison
You never know when you’re making a memory. Rickie Lee Jones
I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are managing their problems. They have impaired memory, they’re having mood problems. They are being treated by their psychiatrists. Bennet Omalu
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. Josh Billings
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t. Anatole France
Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us. Maria Konnikova
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again. Deepak Chopra
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. Khalil Gibran
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire. John Dewey
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. Edward de Bono
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. Edwin Markham
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. Steven Pinker
Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. Nikki Haley
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. Edgar Degas
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. E. Joseph Cossman
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. John Dalberg-Acton
The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt. Cristiano Ronaldo
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. Elie Wiesel
How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid. Frank Ocean
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two. Norman Wisdom
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell
Every man’s memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. Franklin Pierce Adams
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Antonio Porchia
Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored – it’s all fascinating. Lisa Randall
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. Ray Charles
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. Victor Hugo
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. Vladimir Nabokov
Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be. Bob Dylan
The true art of memory is the art of attention. Samuel Johnson
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry… thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. Philip Sidney
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. Friedrich Nietzsche
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met. Herb Caen
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. George Herbert
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Madame de Stael
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events. Albert Einstein
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. Lionel Hampton
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. Marcel Proust
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts. Octavio Paz
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. Morgan Freeman
I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. Mahmoud Darwish
It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. George Foreman
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Lewis B. Smedes
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase. Derek Walcott
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. Thomas Moore
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman
You don’t have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory. Janet Jackson
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. Louis L’Amour
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Alice Munro
The circus leaves a sweet memory. Fernando Botero
Memory is more indelible than ink. Anita Loos
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. Will Self
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Thomas Fuller
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. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. Janet Fitch
I have no memory of feeling strong and rugged at any point. I’ve been considering masculinity my whole life. Josh O’Connor
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. Grandma Moses
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that. Jose Andres
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream. Tom Waits
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. Robert Frost
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart. Carol Ann Duffy
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. Noel Coward
Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. Maurice Maeterlinck
A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian
My mum was massively important to everything I’ve done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me. Fran Kirby
I like to say, ‘Once a dancer, always a dancer.’ In everything – the way you walk, the way you move, the way you talk, the way you sit – everything is just, you’ve been trained a certain way your whole life, so it’s a bit muscle memory. Jenna Dewan
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, 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. Wendell Berry
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory. Paul Davies
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all. Fidel Castro
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity. Mother Angelica
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place. John O’Keefe
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. Elbert Hubbard
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. Charlotte Bronte
A memory is a beautiful thing, it’s almost a desire that you miss. Gustave Flaubert
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving
