Memories Quote by James Branch Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it 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 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

Memory is satisfied desire.

— Carlos Fuentes

Memory is not what the heart desires.

— Anonymous

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 cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

— Anonymous

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

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

— Robert Smithson

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

— Mark Van Doren

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

— David Halberstam