Memory Quotes · Page 158

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

— Saul Bellow

“If one day I die while traveling, I want you to know that I died with memories; not dreams. So, smile.”

— Kevin Keenoo

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

— Dr. Seuss

Sometimes letting go is easy, but its the flashbacks and all the memories that hurt us the most.

— Bubbles

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.

— Janet Fitch

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

— Vince Gilligan

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

— Joshua Wong

“If you don’t like the things you remember, then all you have to do is change the memories. Instead of remembering the…

— Sherman Alexie

“Do you remember little Zoe Octavia Lexham?' he said. His aunt cast her pale blue gaze in the direction of the great…

— Loretta Chase

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles…

— Anonymous

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable…

— Deepak Chopra

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more…

— Margaret Mitchell

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at…

— Richard Stallman

“Deep in the vagrant waters I fail to recognize my own image. but out of the piecemeal surface, too how could you…

— Geeta Tripathee

“Memories of a pleasurable event are stored in the cerebral cortex so we won’t forget them. It may sound strange, but in…

— Meik Wiking

There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over…

— Marilynne Robinson

“A curiosity: my name, Rem, will someday come to mean a line of text in a language spoken only by machines. Specifically,…

— Louise Carey

When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface… So each of us…

— Anonymous

Gone are the days when we used to talk for hours with our friends! Now we don't have time to say a…

— Bhavar Jain

Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade,…

— David Grinspoon

“Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would…

— Thomas Paine

I only hope that this memory I hold so dear and close to my heart will one day stop haunting the depths…

— Anonymous

I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

— Misty Copeland

My memory of high school is people telling me that I'd miss it when it's gone.

— Jamie Demetriou

“Maguire?” His name on her lips brought up too many naked memories.”

— Katie Reus

“It is probably the only memory of real joy I have in the madness of my past.”

— Souad

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

— Natasha Lyonne

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

— Grandma Moses

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

— Patti Davis

“Memories are waking dreams and dreams are sleeping memories.”

— Trish Keenan

“Even though the past may be painful, it’s okay to remember it. That’s how we heal.”

— Heather Burch

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

— Channing Tatum

“Let us repeat. The memory of the present is juxtaposed to the perception of the present.”

— Paolo Virno

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal...

— Ivan Turgenev

“Occasionally, when trapped by memories, I would mistake change for loss, and grieve...”

— Alice Steinbach

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

— Joseph Conrad

“It's sad when the people you love most become a bitter memory.”

— Kiera Forsythe