Imagination Quote by William Butler Yeats

The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.

— Pink Floyd

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the…

— Gustav Stresemann

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

— James Stephens

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

— Lawrence Durrell

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

— George Santayana

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

— Guy Sajer

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past.…

— Haruki Murakami

Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did.…

— Mitch Albom

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the…

— Marcel Duchamp

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende