Top 100 Quotes About Memories Left
#1. Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
Pope Paul VI
#3. The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#4. I thought I had more time, but sometimes tomorrow never comes and you're only left with the memories of yesterdays.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#5. I was not abandoned as a child. I left.
Dane Cook
#6. Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.
Chris Cagle
#7. What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?
A.B. Shepherd
#8. What's left is palimpsest - one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
Natasha Trethewey
#9. Some think intuition is a gift, but it can be a curse as well--a voice calling to us from places that are better left unexplored...an echo of memories that will never die, no matter how hard we try to kill them.
Emily Thorne
#10. Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away. The memories will disappear and there will be nothing left.
Henning Mankell
#12. After the leave-taking, there is the leaving. And once you have left, you discover the ten thousand things that you still carry - memories of touch, scent and sight.
Omair Ahmad
#13. Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.
Tobsha Learner
#14. We all die, Damian. Before I do, I want to love with all my heart. Give all I have, experience all I can, and leave behind some piece of me that will never be forgotten. I want to enjoy the time I have left. I'm choosing life. Moments. Memories. For you.
D. Nichole King
#15. In some ways the experience of these young men paralleled the experience of the very old. They looked back on intense memories and felt lonely because there was nobody left alive who'd been there.
Pat Barker
#16. Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.
Michio Kushi
#17. It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?
Isabel Lopez
#18. The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.
Jodi Picoult
#19. What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
William Cowper
#20. 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
#21. When everything else crumbles to dust, all we have left are the memories. I thought of Ophelia, wandering the theater, mind half gone ... Never shall I cut from memory my sweet love's beauty.
Lisa Mantchev
#22. When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.
Mac O'Grady
#23. 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
#24. Some memories are best left untouched.
Ruskin Bond
#25. At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Sometimes people walk out of your life never to return, and all you have left are bitter memories and what ifs. And though you try to move on and forget them, they become regrets that cut deeper than the sharpest knife, slashing you over and over again.
Mia Asher
#27. People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.
David Levithan
#28. My life's memories take up space with no regard to when they happened, or to their actual time span. The memories of brief incidents occupy almost all time, while years of my life have left no tract.
spoken by Astrid
Linda Olsson
#29. Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
Mike Mills
#30. At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.
Chuck Palahniuk
#31. Kiaran left a mark on me. It's not physical, not like Lonnrach's. It's as if when my memories were emptied, my mind filled with pieces of Kiaran, feelings that kept me sane in the mirrored room. He did it without realizing and I let him without realizing. God, how I wish I hadn't.
Elizabeth May
#32. Personality in man is what is "not his own" ... what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#33. All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you'll be free. You can't spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.
J.D. Stroube
#34. Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.
Michael Kenna
#35. Memories were especially dear, when they were all you had left of a loved one to hold on to.
J.R. Ward
#36. He pointed at the caiques, but Peppone declined the librarian's offer, saying only, "Do you think the proprietor of the inn where we met will report us?"
"The money I left him was more than enough to silence his alarms," said Danaco. "Gold has an amazing habit of altering memories.
Michelle Franklin
#37. It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.
John Dufresne
#38. Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.
Clare Vanderpool
#39. The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.
Thalassa Cruso
#40. The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.
Ferenc Molnar
#41. The thing is, when you say haunted house you think ghosts and goblins and things that go boo in the night. But there are certain places that you go, certain places that trigger memories inside you that are better left in the past. That's what makes the place haunted.
Terry King
#42. I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days, like a salt lake. Or so he said.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')
Kunal Sen
#43. I am wishing of a memory, where you gave me everything you had
and where I offered you the pieces that were left
of me.
Richard Perez
#44. They were roots, Michael realized. Every memory of Maria was a root she had put inside his body. Too many roots, he thought. If Michael left all that roots could come off, shattering him to pieces. There would be nothing, just small and useless parts.
Melinda Metz
#45. Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing.
John Green
#46. The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#47. To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year
in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life
there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#48. It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
George Jean Nathan
#49. Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow
John Green
#50. The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.
Anmol Rawat
#51. He was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.
Candace Bushnell
#52. 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
#53. Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.
Han Kang
#54. Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.
Isamu Fukui
#55. I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.
David Tennant
#56. And you'd be left with beautiful memories and the longing for what had been and what could never be again
Julie Kagawa
#57. Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.
Danny Huston
#58. When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
Ovid
#59. Left behind as a memory for us.
[Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]
Statius
#60. When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care.
Saki
#61. I find myself focusing up at the sky - the only roof left - because too many memories are drowning me.
Suzanne Collins
#62. 'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.
Jenna Blum
#63. They left a trail of hopscotch behind them, Mellie always thinking of ways to make it harder. They'd be jumping along in the dust, barefoot, with licorice drops in their mouths, feeling as though they had run off with everything in that town that was worth having.
Marilynne Robinson
#64. Memories are so fragile, you know. Sometimes I feel they are best left undisturbed.
Janette Oke
#65. Miguel came to my restless mind, as he always did when I slept. Old memories never left me alone.
Kenya Wright
#66. 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
#67. That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.
Joseph Roth
#68. 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
#69. I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.
Suzanne Collins
#70. Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#71. If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made
Selena Gomez
#72. I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
Connie Stevens
#73. I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.
Samantha Newark
#74. My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#75. Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living with bits of memories that, with each day, pass through the fingers like a handful of sand.
Ron Perlman
#76. The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet is the smell of summer for me," I say to Catherine.
"Yes, Mom." she says, "I know, Your memories are my memories now.
Abigail Thomas
#77. Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
Harriet Doerr
#78. She left me at the worst possible time because I knew her enough to know I was completely in love with her, but she didn't leave me with enough memories.
Kate Le Vann
#79. There was nothing left but memories and regret. I dreaded them both. They burned like fire, ate through to my core like acid and cut as deeply as knives. Who the hell could take day after day of that? I sure couldn't.
Kendall Banks
#80. I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.
Dan Groat
#82. And all love that had overtaken her would have to be a memory, a truck on the interstate roaring up from the left, a thing she must let pass.
Lorrie Moore
#83. Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you
Paul Simon
#84. All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life's worries to them.
Philippe Forest
#85. And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
William Wordsworth
#86. In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others
Jung
#87. These are amongst the last memories I shall relinquish to the page, though I am hanging onto them for now and for as long as I can. When they are gone, will there be anything left of me? Am I nothing but memory?
J.S. Watts
#88. Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!
Robert Southey
#89. Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories
when his dancing days are over.
Martha Graham
#90. This is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.
Hilary Mantel
#91. History is written by the victor, and if the elderly don't pass down their memories, eventually there won't be anyone else left alive who knows how the war was really fought.
Rachel Vincent
#92. I think i might even have preferred being the one gone and forgotten, rather than the one left behind without so much as memories"..
Felisblanco
#93. But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.
Dalene Matthee
#94. Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.
Carl Jung
#95. It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.
Colin Firth
#96. It's easier to ignore all the bad shit in the light. Distract yourself with work and TV and other people. The dark is just ... bad memories. Bad dreams. I don't like to be left alone with all that.
Ruthie Knox
#97. It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.
Eva Heller
#98. But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.
Julie Gregory
#99. They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#100. Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.
William Shakespeare
