Memory Quote by John Fowles Download Open image ““But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.”” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory
“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.” — Spirited Away Copy Share Image
“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.” — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I try to forget, but in the process of forgetting, I remember why I don't want to forget.” — Genvieve Miller Copy Share Image
“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.” — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“One never forgets, of course not. The events of a person's life become a part of who they are. It would be like forgetting… — Gayle Friesen Copy Share Image
“Forgetting isn’t the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we’ve remembered can we forget.” — Emma Hart Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
