memory quotes

• Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. (William Morris) [memory/imagination/help/thoughts]
• The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [memory]
• Memory is the scribe of the soul. ( Aristotle) [memory]
• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. (Francis Bacon) [memory]
• Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. (Maurice Baring) [memory/mind]
• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. (Ethel Barrymore) [face/memory]
• 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) [memory/past/theatre/past]
• Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. (Walter Benjamin) [memory/life]
• The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Elizabeth Bowen) [charm/genius/memory/dust]
• Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. () [imagination/memory]
• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. (Luis Bunuel) [memory/memory/life/memory]
• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. (Marcus Cicero) [life/memory]
• Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. (Marcus Cicero) [memory]
• Sweet is the memory of past troubles. (Marcus Cicero) [memory/past]
• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. (Joseph Conrad) [vanity/memory]
• 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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. (Joseph Conrad) [memory/human/being/solitude]
• I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. (Noel Coward) [memory]
• I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. (Aleister Crowley) [memory/being]
• Lord, keep my memory green. (Charles Dickens) [lord/memory]
• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. (Charles Dickens) [memory/thing//magic]
• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. (Denis Diderot) [truth/memory]
• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. (Denis Diderot) [feeling/memory/strike]
• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. (Benjamin Disraeli) [memory]
• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. (Benjamin Disraeli) [memory/type/faith/quality]
• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. (Thomas Eliot) [land/memory/desire/roots]
• Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. (Thomas Eliot) [memory/take]
• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [memory]
• No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. (Robert Frost) [memory/start/being]
• Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. (Thomas Fuller) [memory/order/thoughts/memory]
• Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. (Thomas Fuller) [memory/willpower/take/curiosity]
• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [politics/memory]

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