Memory Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

80 Memory Quotes
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“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”
Kevin Arnold Quotes
“The heart that truly loves never forgets.”
Proverb Quotes
“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.”
Jeremy Irons Quotes
“A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.”
James Matthew Barrie Quotes
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory”
Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”
Sophia Loren Quotes
“Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get.”
Guillaume Alexis Quotes
Source: A poem against Fruition, from "Poems by Several Hands" published 1685
“I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.”
Lady Anne Bacon Quotes
Source: To Jane Lady Cornwallis
“Out of sighte, out of mynde.”
Lady Anne Bacon Quotes
Source: To Jane Lady Cornwallis
“Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: Long, Long Ago
“Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: O, Steer my Bark to Erin's Isle
“Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: Teach Me to Forget
“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXXVII, v. 6)
“The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And all that thou hast done for me!”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Lament for Glencairn
“Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free, The loveliest things that still remain, Than thus remember thee.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: And Thou art Dead as Young and Fair
“To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes
Source: Hallowed Ground (st. 6)
“When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angels stand in a waiting hush, Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.”
William Bliss Carman Quotes
Source: The Man of the Marne
“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.”
Madison Julius Cawein Quotes
Source: The End of All
“Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.]”
General Enrico Cialdini Quotes
Source: written in an album
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: De Oratore (I, 5)
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Philippicoe (IX, 5)
“Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!”
Eliza Cook Quotes
Source: Journal (vol. IV, Old Dobbin, st. 16)
“What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Walking with God
“A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.”
Robertson Davies Quotes
Source: The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies