Memory Quotes - Page 23

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
Jodi Picoult
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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
I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.
Rosie Thomas
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
Amy Bloom
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.
Marilynne Robinson
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten
Cesare Pavese
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
Ann Patchett
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.
Mark Lawrence
I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.
Kris Kristofferson
People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
Stephen Carpenter
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
L.M. Montgomery
Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]
William Faulkner
I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.
Julian Barnes
The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts….We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.
Frederick Buechner
The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.
Rob Montgomery
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
Martin Amis
Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.
Charles G.D. Roberts
The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.
Sophie Kinsella
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
Gregory Maguire
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.
Neil Gaiman
No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
Kathryn Stockett
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Saki
The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
Paul Auster
He remembered Apollo, smiling and tanned and completely cool in his shades. Thalia had said, He’s hot. He’s the sun god, Percy replied. That’s not what I meant. Why was Nico thinking about that now? The random memory irritated him, made him feel jittery.
Rick Riordan
Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.
Karen Joy Fowler
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.
Isaac Marion
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
Charles Dickens
I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
Gabriel García Márquez
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
Margaret Atwood
The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.
Pittacus Lore
A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
Eudora Welty
What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
Julian Barnes
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
Oscar Wilde
Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.
Neil Gaiman
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
Lewis Carroll
Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.
Salman Rushdie
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.
Catherynne M. Valente
How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
Melina Marchetta
Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.
Gail Tsukiyama
When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
Ann Brashares
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Coco Chanel
Because I might not always have you but I'll have the feeling of you for the rest of my life
pleasefindthis
Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
George R.R. Martin
He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him – possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he’d had since he thought, Hey, I’ll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He’ll love me for that!
Rick Riordan
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Guy de Maupassant
Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.
Stephenie Meyer
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
Kazuo Ishiguro
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Milan Kundera
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
Ally Condie
Katniss. I remember about the bread.
Suzanne Collins
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Marcel Proust
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving
Touch has a memory.
John Keats

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