Memory Quotes · Page 248

Time stops for no one but your memories will be yours forever.

— Anonymous

Memories are what which makes me remember you and the reality is what which keeps me away from you.

— Anonymous

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

— Anna Sui

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

— Christina Baker Kline

I learned that nothings forever but the memories that you make are forever.

— Anonymous

Absence makes the heart grow fonder... memories makes the heart at ease.

— Anonymous

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

— Evan Spiegel

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

— Jan Timman

“For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands…

— Chuma Nwokolo

“As we walk through the secretive doors of our remembrance, looking for forgotten benchmarks of our history, we can find unexpected escape…

— Erik Pevernagie

“DUMB AUTUMN SMELLS. The marguerite, unbroken, passed between home and chasm through your memory. A strange lostness was palpably present, almost you…

— Paul Celan

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

— Anonymous

“His habit of forgetting was too deeply ingrained, as if he passed his life perpetually walking backward through a desert, sweeping away…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we…

— David Suzuki

“My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.”

— Roger Klare

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

— Gregory Maguire

“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a…

— Amber Dermont

“...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bottom of…

— Samuel R. Delany

“I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary…

— Joshua Foer

“The important difference between theory and practice lies precisely in the detection of the sequence of events and retaining the sequence in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke…

— Montaigne

“You're really going to do it, aren't you? You're really going to go back to war?" Gregor said. He could feel something…

— Suzanne Collins

I know we'll be cholis for life, sharing our dreams together. As we walk down the road we'll never think dobara, our…

— Sarthak

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

— Tim Winton

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

— Italo Svevo

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

— Marcel Proust

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

— Gillian Flynn

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

— Anonymous

“Blood never forgets. It has a memory of an ancient path toward home.”

— Carolee Dean

“The memory of my name will last longer than the lives of many men.”

— Colm Tóibín

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

— Mark Vonnegut

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

— Joy Harjo

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

— Stanislav Grof

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

— Richard Schiff

“Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.”

— Sara Marie Hogg

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

— Italo Calvino

“You'd think hindsight would do us some good But all it does sometimes Is add glass to the kaleidoscope”

— J.D. Estrada

Even when you forget what you're supposed to be doing, God still knows what you're here for.

— Ritu Ghatourey