Thomas Fuller said that memories are the treasure house of the mind. In there, monuments of our past and the events in our life are kept to be cherished and preserved. It is what makes us who we are.
Here are several of the best memories quotes and sayings that will remind you of its importance in our lives and human history.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.— David Halberstam
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.— Nathaniel Parker Willis
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.— John Henry Newman
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.— Gary Ryan Blair
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.— Charlotte Davis Kasl
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.— James Branch Cabell
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.— Thomas Fuller
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.— Charlotte Bronte
To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.— Anthony Quayle
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.— John Kenneth Galbraith
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.— Albert Einstein
No memory is ever alone it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.— Louis L’Amour
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.— Malcom X
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.— Gene Fowler
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.— William Faulkner
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.— Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.— Richard Schickel
Every man’s memory is his private literature.— Aldous Huxley
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.— Toni Morrison
Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart’s desire.— John Dewey
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.— Ingrid Bergman
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.— Cliff Fadiman
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.— Vladimir Nabokov
The true art of memory is the art of attention.— Samuel Johnson
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man’s life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.— Richard Burton
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.— Robert Frost
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.— Cyril Connolly
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.— Charles R. Swindoll
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.— Tennessee Williams
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.— Saul Bellow
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.— Jon Wynne-Tyson
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.— Grandma Moses
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.— John Henry Newman
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.— Charles M. Schulz
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.— Peter Davison
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.— Francois Rabelais
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.— Cesare Pavese
A liar should have a good memory.— Quintilian
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.— Richard Sheridan
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people’s minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.— Hjalmar Schacht
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.— Ned Rorem
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.— Franklin P. Jones
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.— P. G. Wodehouse
Memory is man’s greatest friend and worst enemy.— Gilbert Parker
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.— Ugo Betti
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.— Margaret Walker
“Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.” Aubrey de Vere
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.— Thomas More
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.— Franklin P. Adams
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.— William McFee
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.— John Lancaster Spalding
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven’t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?— Martin Farquhar Tupper
You can’t recover memories of a missing event. That’s a fallacy.— Betty Hill
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!— Henry David Thoreau
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.— Stanislaw Lec
History takes time. History makes memory.— Gertrude Stein
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.— Derek Walcott
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.— Jessamyn West
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.— Albert Schweitzer
The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.— Jerry Saltz
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.— Joyce Carol Oates
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.— Theodor Reik
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.— David Herbert Lawrence
I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.— Diane Sawyer
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.— Emile M. Cioran
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.— Barbara Kingsolver
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.— Primo Levi
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.— Rosa Parks
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.— Delia Smith
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.— Elie Wiesel
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.— Khalil Gibran
I have a writer’s memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.— Amy Tan
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.— Andre Gide
“What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what’s behind them”.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.— Kazuo Ishiguro
My memories are inside me – they’re not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.— Olivia Newton-John
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.— Maurice Baring
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one’s head.— Harold Brodkey
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.— Mikhail Baryshnikov
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.— Antoine Rivarol
Observation is an old man’s memory.— Jonathan Swift
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.— Antonio Porchia
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 in which dead cities lie interred.— Walter Benjamin
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.— Walter Benjamin
Home is one’s birthplace, ratified by memory.— Henry Anatole Grunwald
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.— William Gibson
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.— George Herbert
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.— Michel de Montaigne
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.— Candice Bergen
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.— Elbert Hubbard
Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.— Marjorie Holmes
Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I’ve always been interested in that.— Alice McDermott
Creditors have better memories than debtors.— Benjamin Franklin
I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.— Charlie Kaufman
In memory everything seems to happen to music.— Tennessee Williams
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.— Salvador Dali
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
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.— Gilbert Parker
The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.— Marina Oswald
I believe the true function of age is memory. I’m recording as fast as I can.— Rita Mae Brown
Language is memory and metaphor.— Storm Jameson
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.— Georges Duhamel
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.— Lionel Hampton
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.— James Martineau
You never know when you’re making a memory.— Rickie Lee Jones
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!— John Irving
Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.— Oscar Wilde
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.— Lactantius
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.— Franklin P. Jones
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.— Willa Cather
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.— Baltasar Gracian
Memory is more indelible than ink.— Anita Loos
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.— Andre Maurois
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.— Alexander Smith
It’s been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.— Bob Kane
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.— William Godwin
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.— Tobias Wolff
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.— Aeschylus
I hope that memory is valued – that we do not lose memory.— Studs Terkel
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.— Oliver Wendell Holmes
You don’t have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.— Janet Jackson
A good memory is needed after one has lied.— Pierre Corneille
“Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.” Daniel Keys Moran
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.— Lord Acton
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.— Alice Munro
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.— Edward de Bono
A memory is a beautiful thing, it’s almost a desire that you miss.— Gustave Flaubert
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.— Barbara Kingsolver
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.— Josh Billings
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.— Victor Hugo
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Memories are doing funny things to us.— Milos Forman
Memory is the thing you forget with.— Alexander Chase
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.— Thomas Fuller