Memory Fade Quotes

#1. Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.

Daniel Alarcon

#2. Images can fade. Sounds and smells disappear from our memory. But our heart forgets nothing. A child's soul knows everything.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#3. As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.

Chica Umino

#4. Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Lionel Shriver

#5. For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships ... Other islands fade as I brood upon them.

Chuma Nwokolo

#6. Even if I turned ninety, lost my mind and forgot everytging else, the memory of the Winter prince would be a shining beacon that would never fade

Julie Kagawa

#7. There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#8. Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

Katherine Center

#9. And when those children died, our memory would fade, and when their children died, it would be swept away like the dust we become, down and away to the long tunnels. It would have been a small life, but I would have liked it.

Pierce Brown

#10. Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Juan Rulfo

#11. The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

Marcel Proust

#13. All those months Boyd had thought only of Sin. All those times he'd leaned on Sin's memory for strength and conviction. All those nights he'd woken in pain and forced himself to keep going because it was what Sin would have wanted ...
It hurt to know it may mean nothing.

Ais

#14. Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees ... and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

George Eastman

#15. Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#16. Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.

Tim McGraw

#17. The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Dante Alighieri

#18. Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Elbert Hubbard

#19. That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

Holly Black

#20. When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

Tori Spelling

#21. There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

Jim Corbett

#22. Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Julia Child

#23. Quentin quieted and watched her for a moment, hungrily, like he was trying to memorize every detail. Maybe he was. Forever is a long time. You have to burn the edges of memory onto your heart, or they can fade, and sometimes the second loss is worse than the first one.

Seanan McGuire

#24. I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory.

Calia Read

#25. Little by little he'd change; he'd get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#26. When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you're back at the beginning. Love is never-ending.

Brad Paisley

#27. Maybe handling her memory every day for five years had made it fade, like the mortal thing it was.

Lilith Saintcrow

#28. The evening makes me think Facebook is a blessing and a curse. Sure, it helps us keep track of people with whom we otherwise would have fallen out of touch. But sometimes relationships fade for a reason. They're better left a memory.

Rachel Bertsche

#29. I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

Ken Kesey

#30. Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Steve Erickson