Memory Quotes · Page 201

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

— Vera Nazarian

You can't bring back the past, it's gone. Keep moving forward and make better memories for the future.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

— Adrienne Rich

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

— Lynne Tillman

You can ignore me for as long as you want, but you can never change the memories that I brought to your…

— Anmol Andore

I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

— Bruce Lee

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

— Sandra Dallas

Listening to a song and remembering all the memories that goes with it...!!

— Anonymous

“And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather…

— Emma Donoghue

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to…

— Alec Soth

“But how can you stop people remembering things?’ cried Winston, again momentarily forgetting the dial. ‘It is involuntary. It is outside oneself.…

— George Orwell

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from…

— Shantideva

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

— Mark Twain

“The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all,…

— Geoffrey O'Brien

One person might be able to learn by reading, another will have a good audio memory, and another will make notes in…

— Jenny Ryan

Gradually,things and people around me will fade.. only thing which is going to stay with me till my end is my memory...…

— Shobhitz

At the very end, without memory we are nothing. The things you say; the way you feel; the way you act in…

— Mauro Remiddi

“... When you died, you were supposed to live on in the memories of others. That's what I'd always been told. Didn't…

— Brian Keene

“Marcel explains that these episodes of alienation and disorientation lead him to wakeful nights spent in the long process of recollection, “remembering…

— Lisi Schoenbach

“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense…

— Julian Barnes

“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above…

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

I've had a lot of memories in my life, and sometimes you kinda have to dump small ones to make room for…

— Danny Mcbride

In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it…

— Virginia Woolf

“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up…

— John Lanchester

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

— Bruce Springsteen

No phonecalls no msges but a single thing I have with me is the memories that u left away :(

— NiSs$H^^

“I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.”

— Francesca Marciano

I don't think my memory's bad, but it's to the point now that I can hide my own Easter eggs. . .

— Rick Sutter

Great stories are not just words. They are moments engraved with lifelong memories

— Sushan Sharma

“...take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the…

— Billy Collins

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

— Sadie Jones

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

— Florence Welch

“Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match.”

— Jodi Picoult

You never really know the true value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

— Spongebob

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

— Plutarch

“We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chickenpox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sometimes, I wish I could just erase all of those memories from my mind.

— Bernajoy Vaal

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero