Memory Quotes

• The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Mother
  • Memory
  • Blessing

• Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

  

  Nova Ren Suma
  • Words
  • Memory
  • Ruined

• Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mirror
  • Memory
  • Desires

• I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

  

  Emily Lloyd
  • Sleep
  • Learn
  • Enemy

• By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Memory
  • Image
  • Desperateness

• Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.

  

  Susan Orlean
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Memory

• In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Purpose
  • Copy
  • Little Book

• To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Forget
  • Secret
  • Memory

• Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Liberty
  • Memory
  • Fragile

• Her time with him had very quickly started to feel unreal so that she could hardly believe her own memory of it.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Believe
  • Memory
  • Unreal

• The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Christian
  • Characters
  • Tradition

• I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

  

  Cesar Romero
  • Remember
  • Have
  • I Should

• The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Birthday

• And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep. But there is no echo of it in my mind.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Remember
  • My Mind
  • Echo

• I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Imagination
  • Combination
  • Don't Think

• After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Vision
  • Buddha
  • Meditate

• The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul
  • Memory
  • Sufferings

• I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sun
  • Memory
  • Border

• If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory.

  

  Judy Sheindlin
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Tell

• This is a way for his memory to be honored and have a presence in the movie.

  

  Edward Gardner
  • Movie
  • Memory
  • Presence

• In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Building

• You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.

  

  Eyedea
  • Heaven
  • Better
  • Hoping

• Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Memory
  • Rule
  • Photograph

• A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Earth
  • Happiness
  • Memory

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