One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Ben Jonson

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de Bono

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Lewis Carroll

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Austin O’Malley

I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold

A happy childhood can’t be cured. Mine’ll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that’s all, instead of a noose.
Hortense Calisher

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.
George Santayana

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
Carol Shields

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P.D. James

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Plutarch

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Memory 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

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.
Jeremy Irons

Lord keep my memory green.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
La Rochefoucauld

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Montaigne

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.
Charles Dickens

A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

I never forgive, but I always forget.
Arthur James Balfour

What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
Cynthia Ozick

The past is never dead, it is not even past.
William Faulkner

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thomas Fuller

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
T.S. Eliot

Memory is what tells a man that his wife’s birthday was yesterday.
Mario Rocco

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In memory’s telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
John Updike

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Seneca

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
Thomas Campbell

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.
Dante G. Roque

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
Persian Proverb

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson

Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan

Living in the past has one thing in its favour – it’s cheaper.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton

Gratitude is the heart’s memory.
French proverb

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
Jules Renard

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
David Seamans

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese