Only Memories Quotes

#1. Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

Willie Nelson

#2. Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

Edvard Munch

#3. And what do you leave behind? ... Who do you leave with only memories of you? How many hearts do you break when you risk too much and die too young?

Shannon Delany

#4. Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Chief Seattle

#5. History is sacred - like a nature hike. 'Leave only footprints, take only memories.

Rysa Walker

#6. all around an illusive reality promises dreams, just as it deviously robs us of moments to give us back only memories!

Marianthi Devaki

#7. Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I've created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I'm creating my own life. I distrust any memories I do have. They may be fictions, too.

Sally Mann

#8. Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.
So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones.

Amit Abraham

#9. Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.

Robert M. Hensel

#10. We chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

Charles De Lint

#11. He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

Alan Hollinghurst

#12. On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.

Arthur J. Deikman

#13. The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories - love lives in the present.

Bryant McGill

#14. They're only memories, Sam. They might comfort us on days of self-loathing, but that's all. We have to consciously move forward.

Brandon R. Chinn

#15. What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.

Santosh Kalwar

#16. My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

Michael Gambon

#17. Only memories have a future.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#18. No tears come, only memories. Memories and regrets.

Anna Todd

#19. The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#20. Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Peter Matthiessen

#22. There were many tears, many unsure times, many troubled moments. The fun memories were only a few, but even so, those memories will shine bright like stardust, and continue to shine on in my heart.

Mika Yamamori

#23. Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

Louise Colet

#24. Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings.

Brian Mynott

#25. Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them.

Oliver Sacks

#26. It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression.

Nahisha McCoy

#27. There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#28. The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

Wendell Pierce

#29. Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles Dudley Warner

#30. My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.

Lee Davidson

#31. Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

Guy Sajer

#32. Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not be remembered.

Guy Sajer

#33. Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

E.F. Benson

#34. Thomas knew he had to be careful. It was strange that she only agreed with him about WICKED now that she'd gotten her memories back.

James Dashner

#35. some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems.

Sanober Khan

#36. We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our memories close. We would fight for each other, again and again. We would keep living. We were in love.
And we were only human, after all.

Jocelyn Davies

#37. He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving
that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Rick Riordan

#38. One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

Robin McKinley

#39. Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

William Taylor

#40. Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.

Hannah Kent

#41. Lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Hildegard Knef

#42. The roast meat the animal had snatched was only a semblance. It was more than food, it was a meal not for human witness, a tangle of viscera, a species of human sacrifice - as if Emerence were feeding the actual person to the dog, along with all her fond memories and feelings.

Magda Szabo

#43. Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

Laura Mvula

#44. No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

#45. It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#46. Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?"
"Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I can remember how pleased I was when I learned to roll over.

Hilary McKay

#47. We can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along side us, on the inside of us looking out. The past should not be allowed to evaporate but should exist only in memories.

Sean Sullivan

#48. 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

#49. The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas.

Nicholas Carr

#50. I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

Suzanne Collins

#51. For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle. The

Soren Kierkegaard

#52. Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace How lovely it was!

Leo Robin

#53. The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.

Joe Klein

#54. My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.

Action Bronson

#55. 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

#56. When you die, the only things you leave behind are memories in the minds of those who loved you. That was how you lived on.

Robyn Peterman

#57. A park like this resembles a large, silent, isolated room. In fact it's always Sunday in a park, by the way, for it's always a bit melancholy, and the melancholy stirs up vivid memories of home, and Sunday is something that only ever existed at home, where you were a child.

Robert Walser

#58. Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.

Ami McKay

#59. Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#60. Memories were in my mind during nearly all the concerts I've done, and I realized the deep connection to my childhood, when I went out in the morning and the only thing my mom said was, "Come back before dark." What trust and what freedom!

Volker Bertelmann

#61. The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

Christian Boltanski

#62. In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past - sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

George Eliot

#63. People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun

Peter Hessler

#64. So much for perfect love. Because you can blink your eyes and it can vanish, without explanation, leaving you with only your memories and your tears.

Sarah Jio

#65. To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.

Oscar Milosz

#66. Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Rumi

#67. I urge you to engrave this on the template of your memories: there are thousands of diseases in this world, but Medical Science only has an empirical cure for twenty-six of them. The rest is ... guesswork.

Erich Segal

#68. Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

Cormac McCarthy

#69. In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

Vissarion Belinsky

#70. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

#71. 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

#72. My painful memories sift through me like sand through stretched fingers. Only small pieces cling and stay around for me to keep, the rest just disappear. I know not where and I don't

Willow Madison

#73. I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.

Agota Kristof

#74. Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

T. E. Hulme

#75. The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#76. always put it off for tomorrow. I thought I had more time, but sometimes tomorrow never comes and you're only left with the memories of yesterdays." When

Brittainy C. Cherry

#77. The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.

Alessandro Baricco

#78. The strangest thing in all man's travelling is that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only who is foreign, and now and then, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.

D.E. Stevenson

#79. Maybe the only thing that lasts is our memories of each other...

Sylvain Reynard

#80. My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

Jason Mraz

#81. Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.

Ruth Kluger

#82. Time can only rob us of the things we can touch; it can't rob us of the things we feel.

K. Martin Beckner

#83. You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive.

K.H. Rennie

#84. When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#85. As the years pass by, we'll glance at faded photographs recalling memories shared with special friends and family, never wanting it to end. Memories are the only thing left within the end." Judy

M. William Phelps

#86. Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

Deepak Chopra

#87. Guilt is the greatest monster. Remorse, a killer. But the worst are the memories. Yet sometimes, they are the only things that keep our people alive.

Melina Marchetta

#88. You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

T. S. Eliot

#89. Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#90. We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
Are harvested by accredited experience
Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
And only oblivion remains in season.

John Ashbery

#91. The pain we cause will haunt our memories and eat at our souls. I do not seek forgiveness, only the emptiness of death.

Harley King

#92. There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#93. 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

#94. Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Derek Walcott

#95. Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.

Sloan Wilson

#96. So not only was it possible to implant false new memories in the brain, but people embraced and embellished them, unknowingly weaving fantasy into the fabric of their identity.

David Eagleman

#97. Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#98. What if the longer we don't deal with the memories we are haunted by, the more these memories, like long-ignored cavities, become not only painfully sensitive, but require root canal?

Lauren Handel Zander

#99. If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.

Isabella Bird

#100. I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

Jasper Fforde