Memory Quotes · Page 139

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

— Confucius

Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.

— John Irving

Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.

— Jean Baudrillard

“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”

— Cara Black

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

— Danielle Fishel

“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.”

— Tobias Wolff

memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

— Harriet Doerr

“A shared memory, is a living thing, shared between two souls. Even when one hand lets go, the memory lives on.”

— James Doyle

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

— Colum McCann

Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.

— David H. Murdock

“As frightening as it seems to live without long-term memory, a part of us all can understand how liberating it might be…

— Suzanne Corkin

Sometimes when I flashed back our memories, I was hoping some of it may corrupted, because the more I think of you,…

— Mielya Saladdin

“This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow , The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of…

— Tennessee Williams

“This [...] isn't something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you witnessed.”

— Julian Barnes

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may…

— Wally Lamb

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a…

— Kathi Appelt

“We are but a tattered remnant, a small and bastard race who linger on the shoulders of that giant race, a memory…

— Ned Hayes

There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we…

— Paul Beatty

“I ate in the morning what I would digest in the evening; I swallowed as a boy what I would ruminate upon…

— Petrarch

“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.' 'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected. 'No, it…

— Lewis Carroll

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with…

— Sean Brady

Everytime I see you; my heart skips abeat; I try my best to hide what I feel; but I aint No Fake…

— Tynee Williams

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the…

— Michael Salter

Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but…

— Gaston Bachelard

There are some songs that when you hear them you cry! But it isn't the song...is the people behind the memories.

— Abhishek Tiwari

It's the special moments that gives us a lifetime of memories.

— Anonymous

“I don't hold memories in my hand, but I'll never let them go.”

— Esther M. Friesner

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

— Antonio Porchia

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

— Arthur Miller

I am so forgetful that when I remember you I can not get you out of my mind no more

— Amarante Kapusso

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

— Haruki Murakami

“I have memories that I'm not using very often That I would be happy to give to someone who needed memories.”

— Matt Cook

Time may heal your wounds not its scar. And those scar will always recall those memories

— Sushan Sharma

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

— Anne Michaels

My best memory was probably scoring a penalty against Manchester United.

— Ashley Cole

“They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.”

— Lee Strauss

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

— Myrtle Reed

“The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.”

— Leo Tolstoy

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

— Jane Austen

Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

— Alexander Pope