Memory Quotes · Page 211

“The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him.”

— Victor Hugo

“Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.”

— Stephen King

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

— Anonymous

“We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.”

— Stephen Elliott

The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.

— Laini Taylor

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

— Kristin Hannah

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

— Michel de Montaigne

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

— John Steinbeck

“Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore,…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

— Erica Jong

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't…

— Mark Twain

“students, “If you need a hand on the test, just call on Archangel Zadkiel because he is the ‘Memory Archangel ’ who…

— Doreen Virtue

“Things change, jobs change. But I wouldn't trade the memories... If you really have that special something, hold on to him.”

— Nichole Chase

“The letters, the fading. The labyrinth, the cake. The four hundred brackish lakes of the brain. She searches for the music, but…

— Laura Kasischke

I remain strong and my mind is at ease. Then just one thought or one memory crosses my mind, and the strength…

— Anonymous

I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax,…

— Markus Zusak

What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over…

— Charles Yu

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not…

— Eugene Ionesco

“Have you ever listened to a song from a long time ago; from your past; a song that was filled with so…

— José N. Harris

“When I described Madame de T's night, I recalled the well-known equation from one of the first chapters of the textbook of…

— Milan Kundera

“there is a difference between what the eyes “see” and what the mind “observes.” If your mind is “absent” when you perform…

— Mike Byster

“Now he reduced his progress to the rhythm of his boots -- he walked across the land until he came to the…

— Ian McEwan

“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In…

— John Green

“How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Something that never changes with time are memories of love; time has no hold over them.

— Anonymous

Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

— Ellen Hopkins

If someone can't see your progress and only remember you at your worst they probably never wanted the best for you...

— Nishan Panwar

Forget enough to get over it, but remeber it enough so it dosnt happen again

— Ana

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.”

— Albert Einstein

“All of them are gone except for me; and for me nothing is gone.”

— Randall Jarrell

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

— Robert Breault

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen.”

— Katherine Arden

“Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.

— Brother Dave Gardner

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

— Hallie Burnett

“How can I demonstrate [...] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.”

— Brad Herzog

“To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity;”

— William Shakespeare