Memories Quotes

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

Memory is satisfied desire.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Always treat others with kindness, for it may be their last memory of you.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it.

Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

My memories are not of time but of times.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

True love rules especially through memory.

Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility

Without memory there are no worries.

I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.

Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.