Memory Quotes · Page 224

“Mercy lets a man sleep. Memory binds him to the tiller, rowing through grief’s endless stream.”

— Erica M. Goros

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.”

— Lewis Carroll

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

— Gary Shteyngart

What happened to forgive and forget? I say, only forgive those with whom you cannot forget.

— Cbk

Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

— Anonymous

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

— Max Frisch

I love when people remember the small things you thought they'd forget, that makes them even more special.

— Anonymous

If your body has muscle memory, why is it always so hard to get out of bed...

— Anonymous

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

— George Santayana

“I can't compete with a ghost or a perfect memory...I'm just a man...Flesh and blood. If you decide that's what you want,…

— Erica Spindler

“Memory isn't the defective tape recording you've been led to believe. It's the tape player itself, playing back the tracks of music…

— James P. Kimmel

If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something…

— Ian Brown

“I gaze upon the sky and see What I want myself to be; A person who was here and gone, And whose…

— Omar Kiam

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift…

— Christian Dior

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes…

— Joshua Foer

“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve…

— Paola Kaufmann

This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about…

— Rene Descartes

I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your…

— Christina Ricci

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling…

— Keith Miller

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like…

— Julio Cortazar

“Dagger of Love: Long and Distant Memories) c. 2016 The dagger of love sticks deep in me, Of loves lost; waves of…

— Douglas Laurent

“The summary of Lambert and Lillenfelt’s “Bloodstains” in Scientific American Mind in the October 12, 2007 The Informed Reader passes along many…

— Richard P. Kluft

“That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you…

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

“For those who write memoirs, memory is not a mere recollection of facts; it is a ragbag we pick through, salvaging scraps…

— Rossandra White

Awkward moment - Getting a text, but not remembering what you said before!..

— Anonymous

The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.

— Lord Byron

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

— Marcel Proust

Time passes, memories fade, feelings change, people leave but hearts will neva forget.

— Kevin McCarty

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

— Anatole France

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.

— Joe Henderson

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

— Salim Akil

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

— Margaret Mitchell

Treasure the people you have, because you never know when one of them turn into memories with a tear.

— Nishan Panwar

I've done some pretty cool individual things in my career, but my greatest memories come from times of sacrifice.

— David Lee

“What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough”

— George Steiner

“I'm too proud to admit that I was forgotten, even to the guy who did the forgetting.”

— Jillian Lauren

“The present is re-created to immortalize memories. It's pathetic, but that's human tendency now.”

— Young-Ha Kim

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

— Anonymous

“Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.”

— Rebecca Stead

“The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.”

— Kendare Blake