Top 100 Memory Live Quotes
#1. The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
Alain De Botton
#2. My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Thomas A. Edison
#3. Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to - Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.
Audrey Hepburn
#4. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde
#5. I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
Stephen Covey
#6. Because we live in a condition of ubiquitous music and media, and near infinite technological memory, it is much easier for local cultures to find an audience that resonates with their music, whether local or globally.
Kode9
#7. I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ...
John Geddes
#8. As frightening as it seems to live without long-term memory, a part of us all can understand how liberating it might be to always experience life as it is right now, in the simplicity of a world bounded by thirty seconds.
Suzanne Corkin
#9. Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love
Karen Marie Moning
#10. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Les Brown
#11. These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.
Lawrence Durrell
#12. He didn't know what it was like to live between memory and regret with nothing to numb it.
Kathleen Tessaro
#13. Logan, with no memory of his own life was teaching me how to live in the moment and enjoy mine.
Ashlyn
Kendall Ryan
#14. When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.
Dorothy Gilman
#15. 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
#16. Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
Joseph Conrad
#17. When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.
Laura Thalassa
#18. Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.
'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.
Alexandra Bracken
#19. I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.
John Clare
#20. Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
Edmond Jabes
#21. Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?
Pyotr Kropotkin
#22. Live inside the moment, not taking pictures to save it, cause if the moment is worthwhile, memory's never been faded
Myself
#23. Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory.
Dejan Stojanovic
#24. Hate isn't the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn't free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you've created a new person, a new life that you can live with.
Rasmenia Massoud
#25. Technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines "freedom," "truth," "intelligence," "fact," "wisdom," "memory," "history" - all the words we live by. And it does not pause to tell us. And we do not pause to ask.
Neil Postman
#26. She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.
Marguerite Duras
#28. It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
Stephen King
#29. I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.
Christopher Barzak
#30. [Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.
Elie Wiesel
#31. I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?
Catherynne M Valente
#32. And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out of my memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored. In a way, it was an advantage.
Albert Camus
#33. Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind.
Jon Mertz
#34. Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.
Alec Soth
#35. Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.
Allen Lacy
#36. You'll live forever in our hearts, big man.
That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!
John Green
#37. To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#38. Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.
Gretel Ehrlich
#39. Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
Sarah Addison Allen
#40. The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.
B.J. Neblett
#41. 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
#42. A tale begun in other days,
When summer suns were glowing -
A simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm of your rowing -
Whose echoes live in memory yet,
Though envious years would say 'forget.
Lewis Carroll
#43. Be quiet, pain and sorrow!
Let me find a remedy. I have to live,
as once dead there is no memory. And I want
to see my love and be with her. And I
want to remember our being together.
Omar Khayyam
#44. It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
Harold Bloom
#45. If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself...
Luigina Sgarro
#46. At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Mark Batterson
#47. You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.
Allan Frewin Jones
#48. The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on.
David J. Delaney
#49. I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer
and what trees and seasons smelled like
how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.
John Steinbeck
#50. As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
Alexander Pushkin
#51. In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.
Myrtle Reed
#52. I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
Mos Def
#53. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death
Carsten Jensen
#54. Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!
Spartacus
#55. This is not a lie: Memory has the taste and texture of cooked meat. Eat it and live. Remember, but only what it is licit to remember.
In Aerograd, the word for meat and memory are the same.
Catherynne M Valente
#56. We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.
Patricia Hampl
#57. How people die remains in the memory of those who live on
Cicely Saunders
#58. Reflective writing produces distinct rewards. A writer does not claim to live exclusively in the moment. A pensive writer retreats into oneself in noble attempt to meld memory, thought, faith, doubt, and other strong emotions into thought capsules while exploring the inscrutable web of creation.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#59. We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who live, there's memory, like a curse. We're such a mixture of frailty and cruelty.
Douglas Clegg
#60. Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.
Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!
Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,
trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.
Toba Beta
#61. Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.
S.D. Gordon
#62. These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.
John Muir
#63. Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory,
James Lee Burke
#64. Often in those two months I said to myself, If I live, I will wipe this time from my mind; I cannot even bear the memory. Yet now I turn to it. He is gone; and all times when he was there seem like lost riches.
Mary Renault
#65. I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.
Anna Akhmatova
#66. Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.
Siri Hustvedt
#67. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
Jessica Brody
#68. We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. people say i'm crazy but i believe that you just have to
live with the things
the juxtaposition
in what you don't see
the great hot emptiness ahead
what you keep calling memory
Erica Lewis
#70. Because books are alive. They are more alive than you and me. Books live forever. They live on in their own jackets. They live on in their reader's memory. They live on in their writer's minds.
Susan Shultz
#71. Today will live forever in the memory of tomorrow.
Jay McLean
#72. Her memory's your love. You want no other.
Henry James
#73. If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
Benjamin Franklin
#74. Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course,
So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.
Edgar Cayce
#75. All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#76. No matter where you live, you have the memory of something you used to eat that is no longer a part of your diet - something your grandmother used to make, something a small shop used to carry. Something we have lost. This extinction is a process; it happens one meal at a time.
Preeti Simran Sethi
#77. Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.
Rumi
#78. If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination,
we're tied to that which is infinite.
Stephen Covey
#79. Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling Is like a festival outside my window.
Anna Akhmatova
#80. For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
George Orwell
#81. What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.
Douglas Lain
#82. I have a theory that those mutants retain some memory of what they were in life, and that draws them to where they used to live. That's probably bullshit, but since I seem to be the only man alive, my theories are the best in this part of the world.
Manel Loureiro
#83. He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..
Jane Austen
#84. I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.
Rod McKuen
#85. It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work ... and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.
Vincent Van Gogh
#86. Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
Samuel Butler
#87. We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.
Dennis Lehane
#88. You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.
Diana Gabaldon
#89. Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
Louise Colet
#90. For the first time in memory, I was unable to sleep not because I was anxious but because I was excited. To live in a damp crowded asshole and sing
if these guys don't know the secret to living, I don't know who does. (The Grieving Owl, page 157)
David Sedaris
#91. 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.
#92. Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them
John Stein
#93. Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
Bayard Taylor
#94. 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
#95. Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.
Richard Leakey
#96. I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.
Denis Johnson
#97. Let me live my final days whole.
Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.
Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.
I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.
Susie Clevenger
#98. 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
#99. And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you're old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#100. To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
Carl Sagan
