Memory Quotes · Page 172

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Remember that you call on me today. Be near me, that I may remember you.

— Anonymous

“If you don't know where you're going , remember where you came from”

— American folklore

“We have become so preoccupied in clicking, capturing and caging memories that we have forgotten to live them first.”

— Mitali Meelan

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

— Jerry Saltz

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

— Lady Gaga

I want this to be something I can remember, I want to hear that this can't disappear or never go away.

— Kevin McCarty

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

— Henry Giroux

“The safest memories are locked in the brains of people who can’t remember. Their memories remain the closest replica of actual events.…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers,…

— Jeffrey Panzer

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The…

— Joseph Murray

The truth of our past haunts us, the memory of past lovers makes us feel all alone in our life. But never…

— Emmalee Horn

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major…

— Samantha Bond

“Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“Our memories and the songs that carry them forward to the next generations speak to the manner of where we have come…

— D.A. Lockhart

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of…

— Jonathan Lethem

Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at…

— Vaclav Havel

I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look…

— Eugene B. Sledge

“There are things that cut through swathes of memory, there are things you take with you that are non-essential, that drag you…

— Amanda Lee Koe

“...the only guarantee in this fleeting market day we call life is that no matter how carefully you plod along, you'll grow…

— Jeff Jackson

Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory…

— Siri Hustvedt

Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, Others try to block the memories and just delete them. But I keep…

— Immortal Technique

“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time…

— Mark Lawrence

We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to…

— Alexander Theroux

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

— Charles de Lint

I fall in love with you just thinking about you, remembering all the memories we've made

— Anonymous

Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday.

— Dalai Lama

“That memory is so crushing why write me letters I already know.”

— Joshua Beckman

That feeling when you also want someone to remember you and ask how are you doing.

— Einyahs

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

— Dave Barry

“The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

— Harold Prince

“It felt like stepping into a memory that had kept going without her.”

— Coral Harper

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

— Anonymous

“Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn’t even remember figuring it out.”

— Rainbow Rowell

...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

— Kristin Cashore

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

— Harriet Doerr

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

— William Shakespeare

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

— Anonymous