Top memories Quotes Collection

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Image of Lloyd Jones
I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.
- Lloyd Jones
Collection: Memories
Image of Adele
Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made
- Adele
Collection: Memories
Image of Simon R. Green
Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.
- Simon R. Green
Collection: Memories
Image of Paullina Simons
Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.
- Paullina Simons
Collection: Memories
Image of Lisa Jewell
They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.
- Lisa Jewell
Collection: Memories
Image of Patrick deWitt
Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren’t worth a goddamned thing.
- Patrick deWitt
Collection: Memories
Image of Kristina McMorris
Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.
- Kristina McMorris
Collection: Memories
Image of Erich Maria Remarque
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Collection: Memories
Image of Erich Maria Remarque
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Collection: Memories
Image of Alexander Pushkin
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
- Alexander Pushkin
Collection: Memories
Image of Kevin Brockmeier
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.
- Kevin Brockmeier
Collection: Memories
Image of Philip Gourevitch
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
- Philip Gourevitch
Collection: Memories
Image of Jim Cymbala
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it
- Jim Cymbala
Collection: Memories
Image of Arthur Bloch
Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
- Arthur Bloch
Collection: Memories
Image of Vanessa Paradis
I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw them out - I don't know where to put everything.
- Vanessa Paradis
Collection: Memories
Image of John Christopher
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.
- John Christopher
Collection: Memories
Image of August Strindberg
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.
- August Strindberg
Collection: Memories
Image of Ami McKay
Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.
- Ami McKay
Collection: Memories
Image of Bernhard Schlink
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
- Bernhard Schlink
Collection: Memories
Image of Bernhard Schlink
It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?
- Bernhard Schlink
Collection: Memories
Image of Brian Mulroney
Margaret Thatcher inherited the sick man of Europe in 1979 and transformed it into a powerhouse. When she left office, it was Britain redefined. And of course the frosting on the cake was her action in the Falklands, where she gave Britain back some of its pizzazz, addressed some past yearning and great memories. So she gave them back their pride. That was the first great thing she did.
- Brian Mulroney
Collection: Memories
Image of Julie Gregory
But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.
- Julie Gregory
Collection: Memories
Image of Julie Gregory
But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.
- Julie Gregory
Collection: Memories
Image of Grandma Moses
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.
- Grandma Moses
Collection: Memories
Image of Neal Shusterman
does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
- Neal Shusterman
Collection: Memories
Image of Marion Milner
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.
- Marion Milner
Collection: Memories
Image of Harold Brodkey
I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.
- Harold Brodkey
Collection: Memories
Image of Maud Hart Lovelace
And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
Collection: Memories
Image of Merlin Stone
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains a lingering, almost innate memory of sacred shrines and temples tended by priestesses who served in the religion of the original supreme deity. In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?
- Merlin Stone
Collection: Memories
Image of Elie Wiesel
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
- Elie Wiesel
Collection: Memories
Image of Joseph Roth
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.
- Joseph Roth
Collection: Memories
Image of Natsuki Takaya
I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.
- Natsuki Takaya
Collection: Memories
Image of Richard Thompson
Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back
- Richard Thompson
Collection: Memories
Image of Karen Maitland
I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived
- Karen Maitland
Collection: Memories
Image of Lyall Watson
I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #‎ intuition guide my way.
- Lyall Watson
Collection: Memories
Image of Steve McCurry
I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.
- Steve McCurry
Collection: Memories
Image of Kathi Appelt
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.
- Kathi Appelt
Collection: Memories
Image of Bram Stoker
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
- Bram Stoker
Collection: Memories
Image of Bram Stoker
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
- Bram Stoker
Collection: Memories
Image of Claire Messud
But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in your memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.
- Claire Messud
Collection: Memories
Image of Franz Schubert
When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves...only in this moment is passion truly understood
- Franz Schubert
Collection: Memories
Image of Tennessee Williams
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
- Tennessee Williams
Collection: Memories
Image of Laura Moriarty
I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned in my sensory memory.
- Laura Moriarty
Collection: Memories
Image of Mary Catherine Bateson
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Collection: Memories
Image of Elijah Wood
Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
- Elijah Wood
Collection: Memories
Image of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our memories are independent of our wills.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Collection: Memories
Image of Álvaro Mutis
Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.
- Álvaro Mutis
Collection: Memories
Image of Jessica Fellowes
Matthew: Shall I remind you of some of the choicest remarks you made about me when I arrived here? Because they live in my memory as fresh as the day they were spoken. Mary: Oh, Matthew. What am I always telling you? You must pay no attention to the things I say. When they kiss, it is a long kiss, all the more passionate for being delayed far longer than it should have been.
- Jessica Fellowes
Collection: Memories
Image of Thornton Wilder
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Thornton Wilder
Collection: Memories
Image of Shin Kyung-sook
How far back does one's memory of someone go?
- Shin Kyung-sook
Collection: Memories