Memory Quotes · Page 256

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

— Oscar Wilde

“The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.”

— Alex Garland

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

— Joseph Brodsky

Forget the past with the exception of what you learned from it.

— Blondie

“Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?”

— J. Limbu

“Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. ~Confucius The”

— Jim Benson

Although its difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.

— Anonymous

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“But what I’ve always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he’d done just a…

— Garth Stein

I learned that things change, people change, that doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply…

— Blondie

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was…

— Colin Cotterill

More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best…

— Guy Forget

When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because…

— Lynne Tillman

“Lily thinks about this. "All of my memories are my favorite memories." I'm amazed by this. "Even the bad ones?" "Dogs don't…

— Steven Rowley

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like…

— Simon Schama

“There is a powerful difference between picturing an image that does not relate to you, and recalling something specific that you are…

— Adam Houge

There is just way to many memories of you and me, Everywhere I go I'm reminded of what we had, I miss…

— Wrestling001

“He loves me so he hurts me To try and make me good. It doesn't work. I'm just too bad And don't…

— Laurie Matthew

“If she’d had any doubts he was a real deal country boy, they disappeared when he unabashedly stripped down to nothing—the sun…

— Zoe York

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy…

— Reed Hastings

“I forced myself to keep my eyes open so I could memorize every curve of her face. I wanted the image burned…

— Teresa Mummert

“If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away - you're in quicksand.  Struggle reinforces pain.  Instead,…

— Kamal Ravikant

“PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“That's the problem with memories; You can visit them, but you can't live in them.”

— David Hutchinson

“Create beautiful moments with your loved ones, so you can have wonderful memories.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“The memory of tonight was as unblemished as new-fallen snow that I had to protect from careless footsteps.”

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it's going to come back to haunt you.

— Abby Lee Miller

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

— Edith Wharton

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

— Frank Zappa

I'm the kind of person with a short-term memory. I like to let things go, to let them get back to normal.

— Shawn Porter

“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

“They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.”

— Dee Henderson

“It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.”

— William Faulkner

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

— Martha Ronk

When you retire, no-one remembers that you finished in the top four. They remember you won a trophy.

— Demba Ba

“Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.”

— Larry Woiwode

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that's all there is.”

— Carson of Downton Abbey

If you do good, you may forget it; but if you do ill, you will always remember it.

— Vikrant Parsai