Memory Quote by James Branch Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

— James Branch Cabell

“There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted.”

— Erin Mccarthy

Memory is satisfied desire.

— Carlos Fuentes

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that…

— Richard Matheson

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what…

— Neil Jordan

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

— Mark Van Doren

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

— Gustave Flaubert

We dont appreciate the moment we our enjoying until it converts into a memory and when it does we can never go back and…

— Frederick A Babb

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides…

— Mark Van Doren

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory…

— W. G. Sebald