Saint Augustine Quotes

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?

I have a really bad memory, to be honest.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All it did was trigger my anxiety, and all of sudden everything would snowball on me.

I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.

My memory is not that good anymore.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

I have a bad memory - thank God for that!

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

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

I can't remember, because I never knew.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.