Cannot Remember Quotes

47 quotes by 44 authors

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. — James Cash Penney
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life,… — David Mamet
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… — Eudora Welty
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be… — Mark Twain
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past… — Kurt Vonnegut
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed… — Eudora Welty
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no… — Jane Yolen
May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two… — Thomas S. Monson
I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping… — Tim O'Brien
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm. — Thomas Harris
I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of… — Virginia Woolf
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of… — Pat Conroy
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I donâ€™t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived… — Fernando Pessoa
She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house,… — Mark Strand
I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color… — Jodi Picoult
It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you donâ€™t forget. — Corey Taylor

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