Memory QuotesOrdinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. In that book which is
My memory...
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words...
Here begins a new life. It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. All that we can remember is almost nothing. Memory is greater than we are, but memory is living and mortal as well. Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep. Happiness is good health and a bad memory. I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? Life is but a memory,
Happened long ago.
Theatre full of sadness
For a long forgotten show.
Seems so easy
Just to let it go on by
Till you stop and wonder
Why you never wondered why. Everything is resurrected in memory. Everything turns only to memory. One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. I bequeath my soul to God... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age. Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new. The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on. |


