Here’s a few quotes about memories for you:
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. -Edward de Bono
Memeory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. -Pierce Harris
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. -Jean de Boufflers
Memory is what tells a man that his wife’s birthday was yesterday. -Mario Rocco
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. -Seneca
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. -Robert Brault
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. -Michel de Montaigne
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. -Barbara Kingsolver
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. -Michel de Montaigne
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgement. -La Rouchefoucauld
What is forgiven is usually well remembered. -Louis Dudek
We must always have old memories and young hopes. -Arsene Houssaye
The true art of memory is the art of attention. -Samuel Johnson
Women and elephants never forget. -Dorothy Parker
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. -Robert Aris Willmott
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. -Nicholas Rowe
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the councilchamber of thought. -Giambattista Basile
The planest ink is better than the best memory. -Chinese Proverb
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -Alexander Smith
Any other quotes or thoughts about memories you can share?
Lovely quotes….may forget them but the remembrances of reading them and enjoying them momentarily will remain…etched in mind. I read long ago: “Education is all what remains, long after all what we read in school has long been forgotton….perhaps that pertains to memory too.”
Amar Agarwala
Hello Shawn, a wonderful time of day when I have time to come and read your quotes, then I can share them with family and friends.
Memories are quotes that are full of words of wisdom. Great memories for me are when we sit looking through all the photos that my mum had collected over the years. Many of them brought smiles to our faces, and some of them even made us laugh. Others brought tears because some members of the family are no longer here. The photos brought back memories of events, birthdays, marriages, holidays, births, deaths and the love that was shared. Pictures we took years ago still making us smile made me realize the importance of memories. Photos capture our memories in print, but our memories are always with us in our minds. Here are some quotes I would like to share.
~ We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~
Cesare Pavese
~ No canvas absorbs colour like memory. ~
Robert Aris Willmott
~ Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~
Oscar Wilde
~ Every man’s memory is his private literature. ~
Aldous Huxley
~ In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. ~
Robert Aris Willmott
~ Our memories are independent of our wills. ~
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
~ The memory is a treasurer to whom we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need. ~
Nicholas Rowe
~ Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. ~
George Denison Prentice
~ The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. ~
Cesare Pavese
~ Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought. ~
Giambattista Basile
~ When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. ~
Bill Clinton
~ We must always have old memories and young hopes. ~
Arsene Houssaye
~ The memory of past favours is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever. ~
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Have a beautiful day!