Memory Quotes · Page 210

You can replace me with someone else but you will never be able to replace the memories which you had with me

— Sushan Sharma

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

— Eliza Cook

“The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...”

— R. Lutece

“[F]or fate granted him the immense good fortune of losing his memory.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

— Samuel Alexander

“Your memories don't possess you, you possess your memories.”

— Anonymous

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. from Nostos.”

— Louise Gluck

“We tend to forget that everything has an ending, so enjoy it while you can still see it around you.”

— Angel Phetheni

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able.…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

“The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You…

— Julio-Alexi Genao

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

— Paula Gunn Allen

The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But…

— David Robinson

“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace…

— Geoff Ryman

Well, the thing that I realized - I had this very happy, rosy memory of Yale. And I had even described it…

— Leigh Bardugo

“It gets harder as times go by, because memory is the first casualty of manic depression. When I'm manic, all I remember…

— Terry Cheney

“...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.”

— F. Sionil José

“If she left- when she left- Antarctica would be a memory, than a memory of a memory, and eventually it would just…

— Emma Törzs

“Memory is not set in stone.  Any neuroscientist will tell you that.  The more you remember something, especially if it's emotionally charged,…

— Kamal Ravikant

“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I…

— Italo Calvino

“Just when I despaired -- she was there, filling me as a melody fills a cottage. I was with her, running beside…

— Gene Wolfe

“Every memory no matter how remote its subject takes place "now " at the moment it's called up in the mind. The…

— David Mazzucchelli

“The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with…

— Leo Tolstoy

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Stuffing our memories might become familiar over the years, but it requires a mental vigilance that separates us from our inner world.…

— Jeanne McElvaney

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

— Jodi Picoult

A past will chase you if you try to escape from it, but once you confront it, it's just an old memory…

— Anonymous

I live for the night that I can't remember with the people that I can't forget .

— Nathaniel Aveyro

Memories don’t fade, it is just we who start overlooking the things once done or said.

— Anuj

I thought about forgetting about you, but it just never works.

— Anonymous

“He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.”

— Hiroko Sherwin

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113”

— Anthony Doerr

The difference between promises and memories? We can break promises. But memories can break us.

— Anonymous

“Memories, especially when they are of someone we love, are an unblemished version of the things we'd like to remember”

— Becky Wallace

I can't seem to erase all the memories of you , no matter how hard I try , it's something I really can't dO!!

— Anonymous

“Leanne," he said. "I would never forget you. I'd forget who I am before I'd forget you.”

— Dan Walsh

“Teeth could be fixed, the past couldn't be. He wondered if memories could be. He wanted to fix his memories.”

— Aelius Blythe

The worst part is not having the memories. It's only having emptiness to ponder what could have been but never was.

— Anonymous

I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.

— Menachem Begin