Memory Quotes · Page 199

“There was something I ought to remember: and yet I did not remember.”

— D.H. Lawrence

I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.

— Emir Kusturica

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love a memory no one can steal...

— Sreenadh

I wish there was a delete button in my mind, so I could get rid of the memories of you.

— Anonymous

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

— Anonymous

“My rule now is, never read anything that is not worth remembering.”

— J. Reuben Clark

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

— Diana Vreeland

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he…

— Diane Ackerman

“Men are born with a great asset of weak memory, especially for the bad moments. It’s not the same with women though.…

— Mita Jain

My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, 'Oh my…

— Sandi Toksvig

“To lose your memory is not just to lose everything you have. It's to lose everything you are. It's to lose your…

— Leonard Pitts Jr

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz…

— Gary Wolf

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was…

— Robbie Robertson

Sometimes, before I fall asleep...I sit back and think about all the memories I had with you...yes, sometimes I still miss you.

— Anonymous

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding…

— Rollo May

“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people…

— John Morton

“I was right about not being able to control my own surprises, but I was wrong about how good these surprises could…

— Adam Silvera

“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the…

— Edward Gorey

“It has been wished, and wished again, that the universe could hold perfect moments in perfect memory, the clearest remembrance of things…

— Alexx Bollen

I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It…

— Dorian Cox

“...no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments…

— Catherine Lacey

“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven,…

— Orhan Pamuk

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

— Rick Perlstein

“Tell me: do you ever actually remember having a heart, or were you born dead?”

— Derek Landy

What has been forgotten… is never something purely individual.

— Walter Benjamin

All people have a photographic memory, some just don't have the film. I do, but it never develops quite right.

— Anonymous

Never forget, that the person you are will never fade away, unless you let it.

— Anonymous

People nowadays take pictures, not for memories, but to post them on facebook and get comments.

— Anonymous

(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg

— Carol Matas

Forget about it. No one knows nothing and anything all together.

— Geraldine Vermaak

“You don't have to have a good memory to have good memories. ¡Viva marijuana!”

— Natasha Lewin

“t felt like stepping into a spa, or a dream, or a memory she hadn’t known she missed.”

— D.L. Maddox

“You can’t really force a memory, even without a brain injury.”

— Avery Sawyer

“Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer.”

— Kendare Blake

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

— Natasha Trethewey

When you grow up, you'll be older but those memories you have as a kid last forever.

— Xander Bogaerts

“Reality had a disappointing habit of not measuring up to my memories.”

— Jennifer Bradbury

The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

— Rachel Vincent