Memory Quotes

"The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you" "Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened" "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten" "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" "Happiness is good health and a bad memory" "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"