Lord Byron Quotes

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

You don't just forget things overnight.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

Short term memory is not good.

My memory's bad!

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

I've always been forgetful.

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.

I've got a short memory span.