Memory Quote by Tanya Karen Gough

“Pain is the price we pay for memory. It’s some kind of sin to forget what hurts, as much as it is to forget…

— Ron Franscell

“Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness. We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles.”

— Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

“Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it won't be memory because it won't know what it remembers so when she became not…

— William Faulkner

“The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds. p. 479”

— Ivan Goncharov

“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of…

— Claire North

“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything.…

— Emil Cioran

“So it is the old meat after all, no matter how old. Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it wont be memory…

— William Faulkner

“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is…

— Amy Tan

“Have you every clawed at the gates of your memory, desperately trying to grab a piece that’s slowly disappearing? Have you ever run into…

— Nidhie Sharma

“These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in the current…

— Geraldine Brooks