Memory Quotes · Page 252

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

— Amy Macdonald

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

— Heidi Julavits

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

— Augusto Roa Bastos

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

— Samuel Beckett

That awkward moment when you know you are forgetting something, but what ???

— Aashiq

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

— Robert Cormier

It hurts to know you've been forgotten, but it hurts more to know you were worth forgetting.

— Anonymous

“Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes…

— Twan Eng Tan

“Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...”

— Avijeet Das

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the…

— Graeme Souness

I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace experiences, memories good/bad will bring tears & words can never replace…

— Anonymous

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences…

— David Rakoff

“What I couldn’t see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go. Sometimes the answer…

— Christina Baker Kline

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted…

— Elia Suleiman

“Tough to part; lock, stock and barrel. Something remains, like recognizable tastes and smells, which kindle the faculty of memory, yea-pricks the…

— APORVAKALA

“Life was made up of moments, big ones and little, the good and bad, dark and light. We never remembered the gray,…

— Madeline Sheehan

“When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy…

— Glen Duncan

“What is a memory, anyway? Is it an indelible record, unimpeachable, frozen in some synaptic arrangement and stored away for some moment…

— Jon Harrison

“Gray mattresses with red and blue stripes in something that looks like a hallway or an overly long waiting room. In any…

— Roberto Bolaño

“The act of retrieving learning from memory has two profound benefits. One, it tells you what you know and don’t know, and…

— Peter C. Brown

“Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more…

— Charles Yu

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human…

— Jane Yolen

In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out…

— W. G. Sebald

There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

— Red Skelton

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

— Anthony Standen

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

— Elie Wiesel

In order to see truly where I am and where I want to go, I need to remember where I once was.

— Sonita Alizadeh

Sometimes, I just forget you, because it hurts to remember you.

— Anmol Andore

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.

— Anonymous

Memories pass by man what a great feelin' to hold glad moments like a picture when you film it

— C-DASH

“This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness”

— john j geddes

I miss the time when photos were taken for memories not for social networking sites.

— Inderpal

Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

— Tom Rachman

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno

“Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with memories of their past?”

— Miyuki Miyabe

You can try to forget the memories, we both shared, but we both know that wont get us anywhere

— Anonymous

To a night we'll never remember, but the four of us will never forget.

— The Hangover