Top 100 Remember Why Quotes
#1. Axonn sighed. "Just like the good old days," he said. "Now I remember why I hated them so much.
Greg Farshtey
#2. I'm not the one who's so far away
When I feel the snake bite enter my veins.
Never did I wanna be here again,
And I don't remember why I came.
Sully Erna
#3. I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.
Caroline Rhea
#4. A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.
Paula McLain
#5. The chickens don't remember that their wings were clipped...They just can't fly anymore, and they don't remember why or even that they once could."
-a bit of conversation between Ginny and her grandmother in The Memory of Flight
Debra Bowling
#6. He was making it impossible for her to resist him, or even remember why she'd wanted to.
Jill Shalvis
#7. I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
Andrea Arnold
#8. Sometimes you just want to give up. Then you remember why you live.
Chen Chen
#9. Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
Ralph Marston
#10. At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.
Kristin Hannah
#11. At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why,
Marlon Brando
#12. And I exist, I roam but I don't sleep anymore
I cry, laugh, scream but I don't remember why.
Katerina Gogou
#13. There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.
Jessica Lynch
#14. Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.
Brandon Sanderson
#15. I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are off, the phones are off, and for this hour, it's going to be like your mother reading to you. We're going to remember why we love stories. I think that gets lost in over-intellectualizing.
T.C. Boyle
#16. The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#17. I had stripped naked in front of men. Drunk. In morning's somber brightness I tried to remember why I had done it. Total exposure had seemed like the only way to be seen more clearly, heard, but now it seemed the opposite: a wild act that would define me.
Aspen Matis
#18. Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.
George R R Martin
#20. I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that.
Madonna Ciccone
#21. To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin.
Billy Graham
#22. I record myself talking. I have a journal. And when I listen back, I remember why I wanted certain things. I listen to me at 16, saying 'I really wanna be on TV ... I want a movie, a huge movie ... ' and I'm just like, 'Yo, I'm humbled. I'm living a life I imagined.'
Shameik Moore
#23. When you think of quitting, remember why you started!
John Di Lemme
#24. When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#25. Humans can only toil endlessly for so long. Every now and then we need to taste the sweeter things in life, to remember why we do the work in the first place.
Drew Hayes
#26. I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.
Drake
#27. When you feel like giving up always look back and remember why you wanted to achieve a goal at first.
Anonymous
#28. One of the quiet agonies of life, is seeing people who love something, lose touch with what made them happy. It can happen to anybody.
No matter what you do for a living, where you live, or who you're with, it's important to remember why you wanted to do something for the first time.
Jason Gay
#29. Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.
Ani DiFranco
#30. Not Pining," she admitted. "But I look at you and you're so ... Awkward, and scruffy, and fearless, and just so intensely yourself, and I remember why I fell so hard for you. And in another universe, who knows?
Emily Horner
#31. Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were free.
Veronica Roth
#32. Oh God, now she couldn't remember why she'd ever left him. She needed him. More than air or sunlight and beaches, definitely more than garlic.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#33. But whatever lies beyond ... You've helped me remember why it's worth fighting. Living. Even when the lines get so confusing you think you're losing your mind.
Joey W. Hill
#34. A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.
Michelle Gomez
#35. Now I remember why I hate eating sheep. Horrible, fluffy things that give me hair balls and indigestion. ( Saphira from the Eragon Series)
Christopher Paolini
#36. I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.
Peter S. Beagle
#37. I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
Veronica Roth
#38. As I watch my priest lay the communion table for the gathered believers, I remember why eating attentively is worth all the effort: The table is not only a place where we can become present to God. The table is also a place where He becomes present to us.
Lauren F. Winner
#39. Remember why you fell in love in the first place.
Rachel Hauck
#41. You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.
Neale Donald Walsch
#42. This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.
Chuck Klosterman
#43. Life is short. Life goes fast. And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. I try to think of that every day so that I can remember why I am coming to my studio.
Ross Bleckner
#44. If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.
Hayley Williams
#45. They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.
Sage Steadman
#46. The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn't remember why he felt this way, and then he said her name.
Junot Diaz
#47. I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.
Guy Maddin
#48. Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.
Doseone
#49. For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.
Michelle Gomez
#50. A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
but can't remember why.
A breath she caught and kept -
that left her in a sigh.
It hurts her so to love you,
but she won't say goodbye.
Lang Leav
#51. One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.
Gage Taylor
#52. If you win power, remember why you wanted it.
John Marston
#53. I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!
Jackie Mason
#54. While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes, / But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. / Only be sure to call it research.
Tom Lehrer
#56. One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.
Daniel Goleman
#57. For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.
Rashida Jones
#58. History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
Alastair Reynolds
#59. When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
Jane Fonda
#60. Tuesdays were my favorite day. I don't remember why-it was just something about the way that u looked like when it was next to e that seemed very friendly.
Maggie Stiefvater
#61. I made a noise in my throat and tried to remember why I thought I'd missed her the last couple of days.
Jay Crownover
#62. Daddy thinks that Mama is everything a woman should be: beautiful, clever, charming. Beauty has a way of making the bad things tolerable. When Mama tilts her green eyes at you, it's hard to remember why you were mad in the first place.
Jenny Han
#63. And don't let the world bring you down,
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold,
Remember why you came and while you're alive,
Experience the warmth before you grow old...
Incubus
#64. Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
Lois Wyse
#65. There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
Antonio Porchia
#66. I want to be hurt. I want to be in so much pain that I can't think and I can't remember why. That's what I want. That's all I want.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#67. When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
Allison Pearson
#68. Oliver," she says. "You can do this." I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself as well.
Jodi Picoult
#69. Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway ... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.
Jamie McGuire
#70. I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.
George W. Bush
#71. It could all end tomorrow, so enjoy what you have and never take it for granted. And never forget to take an easy run for yourself once in a while and just remember why you love to run.
Dathan Ritzenhein
#72. It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.
Dinaw Mengestu
#73. Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#74. I don't think I have an unkind word for any.Except Muslims. I've been cross with them since 9/11 2001. I can't remember why but it was something bad.
Ann Coulter
#75. I continue to evolve as a human, I see things differently everyday so it's sure my songs will continue to change and it's a really good thing. It's nice to listen to my music and remember why I made it.
Marilou
#76. When everything seems worse, impossible to achieve, thinking about giving up, quitting? Remember why started first? Trust yourself, tap yourself and say if you cannot make it, no one is going to. Look back, the whole team believes in you, go for it and be a CHAMPION.
Vivek Thangaswamy
#77. Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic
Marie Lu
#78. Why would Acheron care about any of this? (M'Adoc)
Not him, his mother. Remember her? Tall angry blond bitch who seriously spanked her whole family into oblivion over a hangnail? (Deimos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. I know something about a lot of things," she countered evenly. "That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember?" - Mara Jade
Timothy Zahn
#80. I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.
Hayden Panettiere
#81. Can you put your hands on my crotch?"
"Why, hell no, I cannot." I didn't remember anything like this happening in Pride and Prejudice.
Jennifer Echols
#82. Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.
Maureen Johnson
#83. It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.
Penelope Cruz
#84. I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!'
Cilla Black
#85. Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
Alan Moore
#86. Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
J. B. Smoove
#87. The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.
Steven Pinker
#88. I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.
Tim Daly
#89. Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the filter of recall is itself altered, so that it blocks out everything but the darkest colors of the spectrum.
Caroline Kettlewell
#90. I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
Helen Keller
#91. Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?
Anna Funder
#92. Don't be quick to leave the class of discipline; you shall only live to remember the last lesson.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.
Jeffrey Tambor
#94. I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"
Jamie Bell
#95. As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.
RuPaul
#96. Came to ... see you."
"But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye."
"Don't know why you ... say good-bye. I say ... hello."
Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. "God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R -
Isaac Marion
#97. I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.
Mike Watt
#98. I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
Archie Panjabi
#99. Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
Albert Einstein
#100. And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim."
"Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said.
Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?
Kelley Armstrong
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