Memory Quotes · Page 223

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

“I suppose you have to be very careful how you use your memories.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.”

— Neil Gaiman

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

— Saul Bellow

It's not just about being here, it's about leaving the world a better place because I was here.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

— Diane Ackerman

I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

— Kim Edwards

I could be nothing but a memory to you; don't let this memory fade away.

— Anonymous

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain,…

— Paul Allen

Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or…

— Chris Ware

“...its treasures, as I love them, are imprinted in my memory; and if they are wrongly memorized--a lily where there are tulips,…

— Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more…

— Gregory David Roberts

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information…

— Jim Rohn

When I was a little boy, my first memory was a flying dream. In my dream, I flew - and I also…

— Dean Potter

“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power.…

— Rebecca Solnit

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape…

— Kay Boyle

“Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and…

— Loren Eiseley

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have…

— Joshua Foer

“Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without recollection of them and…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I know there were no guaratnees. No way of knowing what came next for me, or him, or anything. Some things dont…

— Sarah Dessen

It's a fusion of almost everything, in the way that I think society today tends to take cultural memory. Because there's an…

— Joseph M. Kahn

“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if…

— Haruki Murakami

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I Remeber Those Memories We Were Together, All Those Times We Spend Together, But I Guess Thats All Gone Now

— Jacey Kakepetum

I tried to forget you, but the harder I tried, the more I thought about you

— Anonymous

You seem to know me now but will you remember me in 10 years?

— Savannah J

Old empty chairs are not empty in reality; memories always sit there

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together.”

— Daria Snadowsky

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne.

— Jhiess Krieg

Sometimes all you have to do is forget what you feel and remember what you deserve.

— Unkown

It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.

— Margaret Widdemer

“I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died...”

— Lucinda Riley

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

— Gerard Houllier

So - it's impossible? Good! If memory serves, we've done the impossible before.

— Nightwing

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

— Richard E. Grant

I don't want to be reminded of our old memories because it just makes me miss me smile.

— Anonymous

I respect those who respect me and forget those who forget me..Simple as that.

— Anonymous