Memory Quotes

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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the… — Emilie Autumn
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As… — Teresa of Avila
Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that… — Michelle Bachelet
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create… — John Banville
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. — Charles Baudelaire
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. — Saul Bellow
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… — Walter Benjamin
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been… — John Berger
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. — Jeffrey Bernard

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