# Quotes about memory - Quotes: 14 - Authors: 9 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory ## Quotes > I don’t expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. —Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after their death. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 539 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/i-dont-expect.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > Old memories - really old - are almost all in the mountain roots where it takes time to dig them out. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [Foundation and Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-earth.md) · p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-earth/old-memories-really.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > There can never be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corrdiors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. There never was a man so helpless as one who cannot remember. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [Pebble in the Sky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/pebble-in-the-sky.md) · p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/pebble-in-the-sky/there-can-never.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md) > There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Robot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot.md) · p. 189 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/there-is-nothing.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > “I am the King.” Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Fountains Of Paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-fountains-of-paradise.md) · p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-fountains-of-paradise/i-am-the.md) Topics: [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > The common people remember and tell of what they are able to grasp and what they are able to transform into legend. Anything else passes them by without deeper trace, with the dumb indifference of nameless natural phenomena, which do not touch the imagination or remain in the memory. This hard and long building process was for them a foreign task undertaken at another's expense. Only when, as the fruit of this effort, the great bridge arose, men began to remember details and to embroider the creation of a real, skilfully built and lasting bridge with fabulous tales which they well knew how to weave and to remember. [Ivo Andric](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric.md) · [The Bridge on the Drina](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina/the-common-people.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > Sometimes you're invited to a big ball and for months you think about how glamorous and exciting it's going to be. Then you fly to Europe and you go to the ball and when you think back on it a couple of months later what you remember is maybe the car ride to the ball, you can't remember the ball at all. Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life. I should have been dreaming for months about the car ride to the ball and getting dressed for the car ride, and buying my ticket to Europe so I could take the car ride. Then, who knows, maybe I could have remembered the ball. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/believe-me-there.md) Topics: [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Stranger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-stranger.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-stranger/i-was-assailed.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [the past](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past.md) > Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. The young look forth across the sea to a mirage of fairylands filled with hidden treasures; the aged turn to the fading past, and through the mist and haze that veils once familiar scenes, bygone events assume weird and fanciful proportions. The Story Of My Life Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it. [Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md) · [The Meaning of Liff](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-meaning-of-liff.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-meaning-of-liff/woking-vb-to-enter.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/i-see-that.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > "If you hear my voice — I don't know that it is so, but I hope it is — if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it! If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it! If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!" [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/if-you-hear.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md) > Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness. Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money among the earliest resolutions passed at the first triumphant meeting when Jones was expelled? All the animals remembered or at least they thought that they remembered it. [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Animal Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/once-again-the.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md)