Memory Quotes · Page 237

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

— Anonymous

“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.”

— Anonymous

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

— Hannah More

“I'm going to make this all right. I'm going to make you remember, Ava.”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

— George Saunders

The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.

— Wilhelm Reich

My first memory is of being on the set of a commercial when I was 3.

— Brock Pierce

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

— Robert Breault

“Have you ever met a new person and within seconds forgotten his or her name? It can be embarrassing, can’t it? Many…

— Susan C. Young

“Still, it’s better to be distracted by the crowd than to be left with memories that serve no purpose other than to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being…

— Frederick Lenz

“I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your…

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

“Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long…go me. All I’ve got are…

— Alyse M. Gardner

“This sense that the world can be reinvented [evokes] the Sixties in this country, those years when no one at all seemed…

— Joan Didion

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

— Jean Anouilh

For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them,…

— Jenna Wortham

The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram…

— Alexander Shulgin

“ A Hard Life With Memory I’m a poor audience for my memory. She wants me to attend her voice nonstop, but…

— Wisława Szymborska

“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and…

— Martha Beck

“This journey was the last time I could freely caress my memories. I imagined a small lacquered box inlaid with silver and…

— Liza Dalby

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of…

— Michael Leunig

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to…

— Washington Irving

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends,…

— Truman Capote

Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that…

— Susan Kay

I hope you'll always remember all the great memories we created, because I will...

— Anonymous

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

— Lori Lightfoot

I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if…

— Elvis Duran

The object may not beautiful but the memories behind that is really BEAUTIFUL...

— Saumitri Deheri

“It's the forgetting that's the hardest. And the remembering, too.”

— Kayla Olson

There is a meaning for wings that can't longer fly? it is hold a precious memory of when you once flew in…

— Japanese Anime

If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me?

— Sally Nicholls

You gave me so many good memories that's why I'd still remember you if I caught amnesia

— Crystal:P

Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.

— Richard Bandler

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

— Thomas H. Cook

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

— Confucius

Memories are so stupid.. That the ordinary people makes you laugh and the special people always make you cry.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

— Jeff Zucker

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

— Suzanne Collins

I hate getting flashbacks from things Idont want to remember.I just wanna feel okay again.

— Hemant Smarty

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

— Barry Lyga