Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Memory is like a story washed by rain; a few erased moments, a few smudged, few unharmed.” — Alka Dimri Saklani, Beyond Secrets Copy Share Image
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I'm getting stronger everyday, eventually you'll just be a distant memory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because no matter how hard I try to forget you, I still love you, I still do. — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
“Deep is your longing for the land of your memories and the dwelling-place of your greater desires; and our love would not… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be” — Guadalupe Garcia McCall Copy Share Image
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting,… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
“Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay," and part of it accepts this.… — Anna Smaill Copy Share Image
I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried to push them into the dark, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The flame of the inn is dim tonight, Too many vacant chairs. The sun has lost too much of its light, Too… — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
“One unlikely Luddite was also one of the first long-term beneficiaries. Plato (channeling the nonwriter Socrates) warned that this technology meant impoverishment:… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Man in other people is man’s soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.” — Leah Bobet Copy Share Image
“We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.” — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
One day you'll just be a memory for some people, make sure it's a good one. — Karina Barton Copy Share Image
The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light? — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I knew you, a million memories flashed through my mind ad I whispered.. Not anymore — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Love is like a war, easy to start but very difficult to forget the barbaric memories. — Idris Kunle Copy Share Image
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it. — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
Whenever I pack for a vacation, I always feel like I'm forgetting something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the things that happen aren't as important as the things you remember.” — Julia Walton Copy Share Image
To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation. — Anthony Quayle Copy Share Image
Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill. — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
