Memory Remains Quotes

#1. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

Alexander Lowen

#2. When we die it is as if the world resets, and only memory remains as evidence of the deeds we have done, no more and no less.

Claire North

#3. Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.

Catherine Sanderson

#4. We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. You tried to so hard to forget me; you burnt the letters I made. Though my memory has been dying,
I hope the feeling still remains. Will you meet me in the middle someday?

Joshua James

#6. Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

H. Rider Haggard

#7. My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

Hideo Kojima

#8. The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#9. I have done that', says my memory. I cannot have done that - says my pride and remains unshakeable. Finally - memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

#11. I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it.

David Markson

#12. Love is the only memory one never loses, Isaac." His father had said. "Because even if one loses his mind the memory always remains in the heart.

Felix Alexander

#13. 'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

Scott Turow

#14. The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.

David Belle

#15. When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains.

P. Wish

#16. Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. No one forgets his pain, that's a lie. It's buried there in memory and remains in you forever.

Manlio Argueta

#18. I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#19. When loved ones depart forever, all that remains is the light from their eyes trapped in their jewelry. Beyond memory, it is the only souvenir we ever keep.

Richard Zimler

#20. So - people a thousand years from now ... This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

Thornton Wilder

#21. There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

Stephen Cohen

#22. The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which cases are built.

Robert P. McCulloch

#23. Not everyone's life is like a house that belongs to him and that he can go on decorating ever more richly with the furniture of his memory. Some people live in hotels, in many hotels. The years close behind them like hotel doors - and the only thing that remains is a little courage and no regrets.

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.

Oskar Kokoschka

#25. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

William Bolitho

#26. For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory ...

Zachary Taylor

#27. Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Alain Ducasse

#28. Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Max Muller

#29. 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

#30. How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

Cicely Saunders

#31. 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

#32. A great book remains eternally in one's memory as today's legend.

Mayi Ngwala

#33. The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

Keith Donohue

#34. What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.

Ayushee Ghoshal

#35. Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process.

Henri De Lubac

#36. Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.

Indu Muralidharan

#37. I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.

Emilie Autumn

#38. But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Margaret Atwood

#39. Use this day to honor the memory of Christmas - whilst it remains celebrated in your life.

Eleesha

#40. Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.

Siri Hustvedt

#41. From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#42. Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Marcel Proust

#43. The past remains hidden in clouds of memory.

Basho Matsuo

#44. We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Javier Marias

#45. The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together ... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.

Brian Morton

#46. I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

Floyd Skloot

#47. You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

Harold Pinter

#48. First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory.

Jessica Simpson

#49. Tough to part; lock, stock and barrel. Something remains, like recognizable tastes and smells, which kindle the faculty of memory, yea-pricks the soul.

Aporva Kala

#50. However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

Virgilia Peterson