Unmemorable Quotes

#1. Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

Clive James

#2. If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

Lorii Myers

#3. She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable.She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel.

Denny Taylor

#4. To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.
A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.

Sarah Manguso

#5. When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.

Eknath Easwaran

#6. Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.

Laura Gentile

#7. Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Jacques Attali

#8. Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

Haruki Murakami

#9. I wish you'd stay forever, I think. I wish that I would not wish so often.

Carrie Anne Noble