Memory Quotes

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

--Socrates

“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen.”
--Willa Cather

“Nobody belongs to us except in memory.”
--John Updike

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December”
--James M. Barrie

“I did this,” says my memory/. “I cannot have done this,” says my pride, remaining inexorable. Eventually, my memory yields.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

“Time, which changes people, does not change the image we have of them.”
--Marcel Proust

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
--Seneca

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness . . . Those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.”
--George Santayana

“What’s past is prologue.”
--Shakespeare

“We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.”
--W. H. Auden

“Don’t look back. Something may be gaining on you.”
--Leroy “Satchel” Paige