Quotes about memories

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“they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and I keep on remembering mine”

“I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.”

“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.”

“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”

“In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.”

“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”

“They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.”

“All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.”

“There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.”

“They're just memories now. Time to write them off.”

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”

“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.”

“Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.”

“know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.”

“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”

“Leo had a weird memory of a missile hurtling towards him and screaming like a little girl … what the heck had that been about?”

“memories are funny things. Sometimes they’re real, but other times they change into what we want them to be”

“A past may chase you if you try to escape from it… but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.”

“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory —
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”

“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”

“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”

“That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)”

“(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.”

“Percy grunted. “Believe me, some days I regret the choice. Oh, you want to turn down our offer? Okay, fine! ZAP! Lose your memory! Go to Tartarus!”

“They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.”

“Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.”

“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”

“It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”

“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”

“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”

“And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.”

“The color white is the absence of memory.”

“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”

“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”

“She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.”

“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present”

“The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.”

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

“I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.”

“She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.”

“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”

“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

“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.”

“Maybe memories should be left the way they are.”

“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.”

“You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.”

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”

“The heart, like the mind, has a memory.
And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.”

“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”

“Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”

“Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be amused and amusing.”

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

“People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.”

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

“If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.”

“I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.”

“I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps. We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves!”

“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”

“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.”

“No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much…”

“That’s the last time you’re going to kiss me,” I warned when it ended.
He smiled knowingly, and in his eyes, I could see his own memories of that night. “So you say.”

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.”

“When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.”

“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.”

“Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.”

“there was a time when these weren't memories.”

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

“I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.”

“I don’t want to be
one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant
memory.”

“It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever.”

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.”

“And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.”

“Memories were fine, but you couldn't touch them. They were never exactly as the moment had been, & they faded w/ time”

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”

“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”

“Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.”

“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.”

“Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.”

“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”

“All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.”

“People without memory are putty.”

“And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.”

“I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.”

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

“Good memories are like charms… Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.”

“They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing.

To see him again.

But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.”

“Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.”