Memory Quotes · Page 243

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

— Jordan Blake Michiels

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

— Saul Bellow

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Nic Pizzolatto

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

— Robert M. Hensel

“If one day I die while traveling, I want you to know that I died with memories; not dreams. So, smile.”

— Kevin Keenoo

Sometimes letting go is easy, but its the flashbacks and all the memories that hurt us the most.

— Bubbles

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

— Dr. Seuss

Sometimes the past is something you just can't let go of. And sometimes the past is something we'll do anything to forget.…

— Anonymous

I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so…

— Eric Kandel

As a quarterback, you have to have a short memory. Don't lose your confidence, and stay within yourself. Don't try to do…

— Bill Cowher

“Memories must somehow be represented physically in the brain. Brain chemistry and structure is altered by experience and the stability of these…

— Michael O'Shea

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to…

— Russell Hoban

“(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I…

— Beth Revis

“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as…

— Jon Winokur

A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But…

— Giannina Braschi

“And God the taste of undercover on my tongue again, the brush of it down the little hairs on my arms. I'd…

— Tana French

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are…

— Carl Sagan

This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times.…

— Cassandra Clare

“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies…

— Nicole Brossard

“Memory, he added in a postscript, often strikes me as a kind of a dumbness. It makes one's head heavy and giddy,…

— W.G. Sebald

“Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid,…

— Elizabeth Hand

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is…

— Henepola Gunaratana

“There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.”

— Frederick Dodson

“Memories are recordings, felt emotions echoed and etched as they are mirrored across time on our mind.”

— Ron Jeka

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

— Joseph Conrad

“Occasionally, when trapped by memories, I would mistake change for loss, and grieve...”

— Alice Steinbach

“It's sad when the people you love most become a bitter memory.”

— Kiera Forsythe

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.

— Max Anders

“I'm tired of holding onto the past, tired of my memories taking me back there, and I know you are too.”

— T.A. Anderson

I hate getting flashbacks on the things that I don't want to remember.

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

— Channing Tatum

“Even though the past may be painful, it’s okay to remember it. That’s how we heal.”

— Heather Burch

“Memories are waking dreams and dreams are sleeping memories.”

— Trish Keenan

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal...

— Ivan Turgenev

“Let us repeat. The memory of the present is juxtaposed to the perception of the present.”

— Paolo Virno

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

— Oscar Wilde

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

— Fran Kirby

“Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.”

— Joseph Goldstein