Top Memory Quotes
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
Richard Whately 
Edwin Markham 
Rafael Palmeiro 
John Kenneth Galbraith 
William Godwin 
Aeschylus 
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton 
92% of people like this quote
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
85% of people like this quote
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
80% of people like this quote
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
79% of people like this quote
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
75% of people like this quote
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton
68% of people like this quote
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Tom Waits
67% of people like this quote
Popular Memory Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroBenjamin Disraeli PlatoAbraham LincolnFrancis BaconGeorge EliotGeorge SantayanaThomas Fuller
Michel de MontaigneDavid Herbert LawrenceAldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusGertrude SteinRobert FrostElbert HubbardOliver Wendell HolmesRichard M. NixonJosh BillingsCharles BaudelairePierre Corneille
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