The repository contains eight quotes in the category “Memory.”

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Steven Wright
1955 —

I hate memory. It never lets me forget what I want to.

Bad memory has its roots in bad attention.

Many futures are ruined by events in the past that can’t be forgotten.

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
George Burns
1896 — 1996

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Lewis Carroll
1832 — 1898