Top 100 Memory's Quotes

#1. To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh?

Jerry Spinelli

Memory's Quotes #661
#2. Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Emma Donoghue

Memory's Quotes #6706
#3. Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

Martha Graham

Memory's Quotes #8433
#4. I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

Kim Edwards

Memory's Quotes #8520
#5. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Ovid

Memory's Quotes #9096
#6. , and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Memory's Quotes #12947
#7. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Tennessee Williams

Memory's Quotes #13184
#8. He bore the same sort of resemblance to his mother that our loving memory of a friend's face often bears to the face itself: the lines were all more generous, the smile brighter, the expression heartier. If

George Eliot

Memory's Quotes #14827
#9. 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

Memory's Quotes #15379
#10. An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Fanny Kemble

Memory's Quotes #20180
#11. Memory is like a rope, knotted every three or four feet, and hanging down a deep well. When you pull it up, just about anything might be attached to those knots. But you'll never know what's there if you don't pull. And the more you pull at that rope, the more you find.

Dinty W. Moore

Memory's Quotes #20419
#12. Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

Sam Levenson

Memory's Quotes #21747
#13. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

Memory's Quotes #22688
#14. I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Memory's Quotes #26890
#15. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

Lewis Carroll

Memory's Quotes #27647
#16. The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

Memory's Quotes #29475
#17. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.

Michael Bungay Stanier

Memory's Quotes #30095
#18. Her memory's your love. You want no other.

Henry James

Memory's Quotes #34195
#19. My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.

Nigel Barker

Memory's Quotes #34610
#20. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.

Leo Tolstoy

Memory's Quotes #39676
#21. Think your mother will let me drive you to school tomorrow? Now that we're all friends and united by a belief in the careful use of contraception?"
My cheeks burn, the memory of my mother's mortifying behavior distracting me for a moment. "Yes," I mumble. "I think so.

Stacey Jay

Memory's Quotes #40966
#22. Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

Gregory Maguire

Memory's Quotes #43206
#23. Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Susumu Tonegawa

Memory's Quotes #43422
#24. My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Haruki Murakami

Memory's Quotes #54698
#25. We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

Abbey Lincoln

Memory's Quotes #54865
#26. Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

James MacArthur

Memory's Quotes #56494
#27. How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

Marcel Proust

Memory's Quotes #56959
#28. 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

Memory's Quotes #60519
#29. He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.

Christian F. Burton

Memory's Quotes #62906
#30. My sister Cordelia's last report said that she was not only the worst girl in the school, but the worst there had ever been in the memory of the oldest nun.

Evelyn Waugh

Memory's Quotes #65464
#31. Freud's fundamental thought, on which these remarks are based, is formulated by the assumption that consciousness comes into being at the site of a memory trace.

Walter Benjamin

Memory's Quotes #67644
#32. 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

Memory's Quotes #71225
#33. She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory.

yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's the good stable arseholes like us who are remembered best.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Memory's Quotes #73156
#34. Peter smiles at me, shaking his head. Behind the smile I can see he's scared as I am. Blood drips onto his lips. "You never did listen to my orders," he said.
I smiled back. "Aren't you glad you'll have company?

Dan Krokos

Memory's Quotes #76118
#35. What matters the most is who you love. Because when everything else is a distant memory, the people you love are all that's left. And love is the single most important thing we can do in our lives. Give it. Receive it. Teach others how to do it-Gran

J. Sterling

Memory's Quotes #81533
#36. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.

Andrea Lochen

Memory's Quotes #82464
#37. Deep in December
it's nice to remember
without a hurt
the heart is hollow.

Tom Jones

Memory's Quotes #87939
#38. What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.

Raymond E. Feist

Memory's Quotes #88004
#39. When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.

Caroline Myss

Memory's Quotes #89851
#40. With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.

Melissa Hill

Memory's Quotes #91220
#41. Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is the white-light-tunnel deal, and I'm pressing toward it, and it's pressing back, until we become the same thing.

Kate Ellison

Memory's Quotes #91353
#42. Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Memory's Quotes #93596
#43. 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

Memory's Quotes #93914
#44. Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.

Sloane Crosley

Memory's Quotes #96325
#45. When I had woken up the next morning, I'd stared at my ceiling for a good ten minutes, reliving the dream, committing it to memory ... wishing it was real, wishing I could crawl back inside that dream and disappear
stay there forever.

S.C. Stephens

Memory's Quotes #97285
#46. Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

Anton Chekhov

Memory's Quotes #100819
#47. How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Vladimir Nabokov

Memory's Quotes #102739
#48. While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown ... that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.

Nalini Singh

Memory's Quotes #108089
#49. From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which they find their meaning - and which they, in turn, transform.

Anne McClintock

Memory's Quotes #108247
#50. I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love for ever any more? Is no one built for the long road?

Josephine Hart

Memory's Quotes #108601
#51. Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

Kirby Wright

Memory's Quotes #108842
#52. I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.

Sanober Khan

Memory's Quotes #111448
#53. In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!

Ellie Goulding

Memory's Quotes #112642
#54. 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

Memory's Quotes #115500
#55. Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.

Jim Bolger

Memory's Quotes #116430
#56. A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

Anatoly Rybakov

Memory's Quotes #116493
#57. I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

Joy Behar

Memory's Quotes #117463
#58. With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

Elie Wiesel

Memory's Quotes #121333
#59. A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

Whittaker Chambers

Memory's Quotes #123256
#60. Reggie's earliest memory of her mother began with her mother balancing an egg on its end and ended with Reggie losing her left ear.

Jennifer McMahon

Memory's Quotes #123778
#61. The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.

Dhani Jones

Memory's Quotes #126278
#62. Memory. Such a strange phenomenon. What does a person remember, and what does he choose to forget? Perhaps he's not choosing, but forgetting. And what does he remember, and for what reason?

Rama Marinov Cohen

Memory's Quotes #127967
#63. There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.

Horacio Quiroga

Memory's Quotes #132210
#64. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no ... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just - exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever ... lost.

J.K. Rowling

Memory's Quotes #134036
#65. 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

Memory's Quotes #134105
#66. The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Patini

Memory's Quotes #134127
#67. It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.

Xo

Memory's Quotes #134508
#68. Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Rumi

Memory's Quotes #137466
#69. Conscious access to memory is a unique trait of living things, but memory itself is not. It's encoded in the minute vibrations between elementary particles. Our entire universe is built of information given shape. Part of that is its history. Its memory.

M.R. Graham

Memory's Quotes #137656
#70. The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Rebecca West

Memory's Quotes #139000
#71. Perhaps she's in love with the last memory she has of you.

Andrea Boeshaar

Memory's Quotes #141820
#72. A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

Pam Brown

Memory's Quotes #142072
#73. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Karl Lagerfeld

Memory's Quotes #142798
#74. Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

Mark Kurlansky

Memory's Quotes #145461
#75. December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory ...

John Geddes

Memory's Quotes #145531
#76. Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and relax, and enjoy a game of Tidly-Winks, the sound of a Pete Rose baseball card in the spokes of our bike, or maybe a nice slice of watermelon - with a sprinkle of salt.

Michael Buffalo Smith

Memory's Quotes #145710
#77. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

Memory's Quotes #145745
#78. You must have been tortured by the memory of everything Jack didn't even know to want. Friends, school, grass, swimming, rides at the fair ... " "Why does everyone go on about fairs?" Ma's voice is all hoarse. "When I was a kid I hated fairs." The woman does a little laugh. Ma

Emma Donoghue

Memory's Quotes #146030
#79. 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

Memory's Quotes #150399
#80. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened. - T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton

Blake Crouch

Memory's Quotes #150508
#81. It's all right, Ginny. It's over. It's just a memory.

J.K. Rowling

Memory's Quotes #150706
#82. Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have ... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

Edwin S. Shneidman

Memory's Quotes #150876
#83. A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Roger Ascham

Memory's Quotes #153539
#84. I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

Steve Bisley

Memory's Quotes #153710
#85. Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).

Oliver Sacks

Memory's Quotes #154247
#86. When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

Bode Miller

Memory's Quotes #156157
#87. I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.

Pat Conroy

Memory's Quotes #156226
#88. 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

Memory's Quotes #159627
#89. Images can fade. Sounds and smells disappear from our memory. But our heart forgets nothing. A child's soul knows everything.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Memory's Quotes #160888
#90. Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

Lisa Randall

Memory's Quotes #161493
#91. When we arrive at eternity's shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful'

Phil Wickham

Memory's Quotes #161524
#92. When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

Dave McKean

Memory's Quotes #162304
#93. Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

Sarah Manguso

Memory's Quotes #164246
#94. Some things you remember, and some you forget. Of the things you remember, you have to wonder what's real and what's translated into a memory from a story you heard.

Bill Konigsberg

Memory's Quotes #164760
#95. If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying for, which is to make something that will become a part of the reader's experience and a part of his memory.

Ernest Hemingway,

Memory's Quotes #165562
#96. 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

Memory's Quotes #168478
#97. Bliss braided it's way through her, explosive and terrifying. Every pain she'd endured over the years disappeared from memory. Their mouths made seamless, perfect fit. Every tilt, every breath, every tangle of their tongues was as if she'd found where she belonged.

Robin Bielman

Memory's Quotes #171184
#98. Dedicated to the memory of MY FATHER. For if I had not believed that he would have wished me to give such help as I could toward making his life's work of service to mankind, I should never have been led to write this book.

Leonard Darwin

Memory's Quotes #171518
#99. I think the first feature of any director is going to hold a special place in their heart. It's kind of like a first kiss in that its highly anticipated and will be forever ingrained in your memory, but at the end of the day you're just trying not to slobber all over the other person.

Nicholas Ozeki

Memory's Quotes #172985
#100. A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can't do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.

Sebastian Barry

Memory's Quotes #173100

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