A Memory Quotes

How is something a memory if you never forgit? — Sapphire.

What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The memory was so vivid that, like a fresh scab, he was sure he would start to bleed if he picked at it. — Miyuki Miyabe

Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you. — Lauren Barnholdt

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

Time blunts the pain and creates a mist over one's memory - at least in the case of death and sorrow. Other types of pain linger longer. — Melanie Dickerson

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop. — David Levithan

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives. — Phil Donahue

As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory. — J.C. Morrows

If you try to forget it, nothing can erase a memory. — Debasish Mridha

When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. — Jane Austen

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ... — Ron Rash

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt

Growing up, I meant to be a memory. — Alejandro Zambra

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled. — Raymond L. Atkins

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character. — Alexandra Daddario

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

It didn't take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory. — Ali Shaw

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment. — Ruthie Henshall

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus

Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to. — Stanislaw Lem

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth. — Shannon Hale

And that's where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warm place that has no memory. — Stephen King

I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not. — Erica Bauermeister

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory. — Lanny Wadkins

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life. — Joan D. Vinge

Happiness is health and a short memory! — Audrey Hepburn

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory. — Josh Hartnett

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. — Elie Wiesel

You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks. — Neal Barnard

The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven — Kenneth Eade

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory. — Russell Brand

I've a grand memory for forgetting, — Robert Louis Stevenson

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings. — Pittacus Lore

Do not trust your memory, it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. — Georges Duhamel

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways. — Gail Carson Levine

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. — Larry Wall

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me. — James MacArthur

I gaze upon the sky and see
What I want myself to be;
A person who was here and gone,
And whose memory will always live on. — Omar Kiam

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. — James Herriot

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us. — Sam Tanenhaus

I'm always going to be with you, you know. As long as you remember me, I will exist. Memory is a form of existence, life after death. — Andrea Speed

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone. — Terry Pratchett

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman's memory. Such a night changes your life forever. — Sara Sheridan

Don't dwell on the PAST as it is a memory ... But dream for the Future as it is a hope — Blake Hahn

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back — Richard Thompson

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory. — Raisa Gorbacheva

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk. — Stephenie Meyer

All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. — Diana Gabaldon

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. — John Berger

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. — Israel Horovitz

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory. — Diane Meier

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does. — John Steinbeck

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting — Jude Morgan

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this. — Kate Christensen

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. — James Russell Lowell

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. — Josiah Royce

No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ... — Amitav Ghosh

Another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time. — Mitch Albom

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. — Clifton Fadiman

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst

Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want. — Rainbow Rowell

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special. — Tom Heinsohn

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing ... Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions. — Russell Hoban

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. — Sloane Crosley

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function. — Paul Park

Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep. — Roshani Chokshi

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. — Brian Ruckley

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. — Vladimir Nabokov

Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go. — Robyn Carr

All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more. — Santideva

Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost — Kevin Arnold

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay — Neil Young

You can pull a goat off into the field, but a memory you can only haul into the sun and hope it desiccates. Dries to something crumbled and odorless. — Peter Heller

We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild. — Thomm Quackenbush

When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade. — Napoleon Hill

Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was. — Chad Kultgen

A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory ... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream ... i want to line the pieces up ... yours and mine. — Shiro Amano

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love. — Catherine Lacey

Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby's smile. — Debasish Mridha

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. — Aubrey De Vere

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination. — Amitav Ghosh

Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory. — Rita Zahara

Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish. — Justin Somper

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. — George Eliot

The past is more than a memory. — John Trudell