Memory Quotes

"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain" "And no matter how many lovers you kill you can't kill your first" "The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream" "I was always dreaming about very powerful people—dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years." "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it." "The past is never dead It’s not even past" "Every man's memory is his private literature" "Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair." "If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd" "Touch has a memory" "Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems" "Memory's truth is to desire" "The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good." "People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights" "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery" "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was" "Some things you forget. Other things you never do" "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present " "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."