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| Alla klagar över sitt dåliga minne, men ingen över sitt dåliga förstånd. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Det förflutna är det du kommer ihåg, tror att du kommer ihåg, övertygar dig själv om att du kommer ihåg eller det du låtsas att du kommer ihåg. | Harold Pinter (1930-) |
| Mina minnen finns inuti mig - de är inte saker eller platser - jag kan ta med dem vart som helst. | Olivia Newton-John (1948-) |
| Minnet är den saken som du glömmer med. | Alexander Chase |
| Hvordan kan det være, at vores hukommelse er god nok til i mindste detalje at huske, hvad der er sket os, men ikke god nok til at huske, hvor tit vi har fortalt det til den samme person? | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Lige nu har jeg hukommelsestab og deja vu på samme tid. Jeg tror, jeg har glemt det her før. | Steven Wright (1955-) |
| To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. | Albert Finney (1936-) |
| Memory is more incredible than ink | Anita Loos (1893-1981) |
| We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| We do not remember days, we remember moments. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. | Chris Cobbs |
| We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us | David Seamands |
| If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. | E. Joseph Cossman |
| Memory is the library of the mind | Francis Fauvel-Gourand |
| She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. | Frank Deford (1938-) |
| Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. | Georges Duhamel (1884-1966) |
| For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time | George Sutherland |
| A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name | Gerald Griffin |
| There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted | James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) |
| There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. | James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) |
| To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember | James Hoffa |
| (History is) not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| 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 (1942-) |
| 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 (1840-1916) |
| 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 |
| Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead | Lilly Langtry |
| Hunger steals the memory | Louise Erdrich (1954-) |
| 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 |
| I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem | Lou Thesz |
| Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. | Maurice Baring |
| The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal. | Mitch Gaylord (1961-) |
| Memory: 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 |
| Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. | Richard Schickel |
| You never know when you're making a memory. | Rickie Lee Jones (1954-) |
| 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 (1934-) |
| Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing. | St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) |
| Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not | Susan Spano |
| Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction. | Ulric Neisser |
| Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. | Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) |
| I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. | Aleister Crowley (1875-) |
| A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. | Billie Holiday (1915-1959) |
| The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. | Franklin P. Jones (1887-1929) |
| I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. | Jessamyn West (1902-1984) |
| Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place | John Muir (1838-1914) |
| We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. | Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) |
| There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? | Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) |
| Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. | Saul Bellow (1915-2005) |
| 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 (1892-1940) |
| Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| There is nothing like an odor to stir memories. | William McFee (1881-1966) |
| I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "darling" thing got started? | Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917-) |
| 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 (1948-) |
| We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. | Jeremy Irons (1948-) |
| 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 |
| We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| 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 (1840-1916) |
| Memory: 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 |
| We must always have old memories and young hopes | Houssaye |
| 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 (1934-) |
| God gave us memory that we might have roses in December. | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. | Jesse Jackson (1941-) |
| Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted | James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) |
| Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory | David Seamands |
| We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us | David Seamands |
| A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing. | St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) |
| A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Memory is the mother of all wisdom | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng | Bible |
| We do not remember days, we remember moments. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| 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 (1816-1855) |
| Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know.” And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. | Doug Larson |
| Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. | Frank Deford (1938-) |
| The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance | French Proverb |
| The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |
| A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time | George Sutherland |
| My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows ... | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| 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 (1942-) |
| A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise. | Red Constantino |
| The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| You never know when you're making a memory. | Rickie Lee Jones (1954-) |
| We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The true art of memory is the art of attention. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| We have all forgot more than we remember | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. | Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) |
| Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. | Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) |
| Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Hukommelse har ikke mer med begavelse å gjøre enn en notisblokk har med litteratur. | John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
| Hukommelsen svikter når vi selv vil det. Den er alltid god å skylde på når vi har gjort feil. | Ranveig Sørensen |