Memory Quotes

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.