Top 100 Memory That Quotes
#1. He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.
Francoise Sagan
#2. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
Lewis Carroll
#3. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
Charles Caleb Colton
#4. Had a memory that he himself had once compared to the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly, in that it was colorful, flitted prettily hither and thither, and was
Douglas Adams
#5. If each memory that drifted up were a star, I was standing at the center of a galaxy. Beneath vast constellations of lost smiles and quiet laughter. Whole, endless days of gray and brown and black that we'd spent with only each other to hold on to.
Alexandra Bracken
#6. A kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#7. 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
#8. Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.
Conrad Veidt
#9. I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#10. When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
Max Frisch
#11. When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club
Robert Pires
#12. Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.
Sue Miller
#13. I forced myself to keep my eyes open so I could memorize every curve of her face. I wanted the image burned so deeply in my memory that when I closed my eyes to sleep at night, she would be the last thing I saw and the first person on my mind when I woke.
Teresa Mummert
#14. I listen to all of my Dutch happy-hardcore songs from my raving techno days when I was about 14. It's the most horrible music ever. I think it's some kind of muscle memory that brings me back to when I was 14. It makes me bounce around the gym quite happily.
Lara Stone
#15. What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.
Siri Hustvedt
#17. 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
#18. My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.
Joy Harjo
#19. I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind.
Orson Scott Card
#20. ...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.
Michael Callahan
#21. Matteo lived inside her like a memory that paradoxically stopped the pain and which she could never get enough of ... because there was, and never would be, anything that was like him. Wherever she went, whatever she did, he was the only thing she truly loved, and which she sadly no longer had.
Llarjme
#22. I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
- Kate
Elizabeth Scott
#23. But he has still a vague memory that he was a human once,
J.M. Barrie
#24. I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.
Lorrie Moore
#25. 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
#26. But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped.
Stephen King
#27. He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory - that's what you have computers for, so you don't have to put stuff in your own memory - and that was all he did.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#28. Being together came close to destroying both of us once already," he says. "But I don't fucking care. You are the memory that gets me through my days, and the fantasy that saves me in the night.
J. Kenner
#29. I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.
Bob Kerrey
#30. But the ship swept on, and the dusk hushed the hum of the day, and the first stars above blinked answers to the early fireflies on the banks as that jungle fell far behind, leaving only its fragrance as a memory that it had been.
H.P. Lovecraft
#31. Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.
Abbi Glines
#32. It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
Chinua Achebe
#33. And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
John Irving
#34. Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#35. Because in my mind - in the memory that has lodged itself imperturbably in my mind, my father resembles Abraham Lincoln, a man with long arms and deep pockets and dark eyes ...
Daniel Wallace
#36. Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.
Phylicia Rashad
#37. The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man's memory. That is our duty. If we don't fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
Jorge Luis Borges
#38. History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'. For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.
Saul Bellow
#39. Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
Brene Brown
#40. Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different?
George Orwell
#41. Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. The future is just a memory that has yet to be born
Dean Cavanagh
#43. A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim ...
Muriel Wace
#44. As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#45. He just knew, on a level beneath reason
and memory, that some part of him belonged
with Isabelle. Maybe even belonged to Isabelle.
Cassandra Clare
#46. I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.
Ruth Reichl
#47. A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.
Dree Hemingway
#48. 9.01 Nausea catalogs the indigestible contents of the stomach that are to be brought up.
9.02 Memory that is nauseating catalogs the contents of the mind that can never be brought up.
E.L. Doctorow
#49. I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
Brian Greene
#50. For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
Alan Lightman
#51. 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
#52. Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
#53. I wanted to imprint every feature of his into my mind. I want to remember his kisses that calmed the storm in me, pulling me out of confusion instantaneously. I did it all so I could be sure of a throwback memory that would calm me if ever I am in a storm again.
Kavipriya Moorthy
#54. Chax, I want this. If I am going to die, let me die with a memory that will make all other bad things irrelevant. Let me die knowing I was loved." -Kasadya
Karen Swart
#55. Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.
Brian Ruckley
#56. It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
Akira Kurosawa
#57. RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.
Dave Barry
#58. The remoteness of a thing is in proportion rather to the visual power of the memory that is looking at it than to the real interval of the intervening days,
Marcel Proust
#59. It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas
#60. Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#61. He smiles. it nearly breaks my heart. I know that smile. It's a memory that's tainted, something that should have been happy but didn't turn out that way.
H.M. Ward
#62. The first money memory that many of us have as children is finding a coin on the street, in the park, or while walking to school. Then when we picked up the penny or nickel and showed it to our mother or father, and they immediately told us to go wash our hands saying, That is dirty!
Celso Cukierkorn
#63. I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
Jojo Moyes
#64. Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#65. The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous contemplation and memory of God. I do not mean by that a cerebral memory of God but a memory that works from within the heart.
Kyriacos C. Markides
#67. Exhilaratingly new and unmistakably familiar, like a childhood memory that felt dreamlike until photographic evidence was found in an old box in the attic.
Lauren Kate
#68. You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
Umberto Eco
#69. Every person we meet on our journey leaves a memory. That memory leaves an imprint on us for the rest of our lives. I have learnt that the only objective is to keep that imprint a happy one.
Nilesh Rathod
#70. In brain scans, music lights up the medial prefrontal cortex and triggers a memory that starts playing in your mind. All of a sudden you can see a place, a person, an incident. The strongest responses to music - the ones that elicit vivid memories - cause the greatest activity on brain scans.
Jodi Picoult
#71. 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
#72. That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire.
Albert Camus
#73. Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#74. He found, moreover, that he still knew how to take the weapon apart. That much of his memory, at any rate, had not been wiped out at the hospital. It made him furtively happy to suspect that there were probably other parts of his memory that had been missed as well.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#75. Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.
Rebecca McNutt
#76. They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by chance a glimpse of an inner essence, only to forget what it was. It was this lost memory that pained us, reduced us to ruins, though still we struggled to be ourselves.
Orhan Pamuk
#77. I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.
S.A. Tawks
#78. Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
Honore De Balzac
#79. The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.
Samuel Armen
#80. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.
Joy Harjo
#81. See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
Jodi Picoult
#82. Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
Jesse Jackson
#83. Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Derek Walcott
#84. Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
Gregory Maguire
#85. We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.
Terry Tempest Williams
#86. There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#87. I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
Eugene Delacroix
#88. Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.
Tove Ditlevsen
#89. Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.
Mary McAleese
#90. Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.
Tyler Florence
#91. Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.
Robert Charles Wilson
#92. He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall.
Lauren Groff
#93. There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present.
Justin Cronin
#94. I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.
Alex Majoli
#95. Time's the thief of memory: that one he knew.
Stephen King
#96. May every memory that you share
Of dreams you've seen come true,
Help make this special anniversary day
A happy one, for the two of you
John Walter Bratton
#97. For now, the very breath of the beans and clover whispered to my heart that the day must come when it would be well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me.
Charles Dickens
#98. In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.' 'That
Andrzej Sapkowski
#99. He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.
Joseph Heller
#100. 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
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