No Memory Quotes
(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.
Deep in Decemberit's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…
What is it like to wear another person’s skin?”“I don’t have a good answer for that, ” I said. “It hurts.”“Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?
He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.
True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.
The soft strings of the lute rippled with memories, and the maid's lilting voice made Mary sigh as she closed her eyes. She fell asleep filled with sadness, but without regret.
I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.
With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.
Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again.
Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.
I've been wondering, " Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.
Memories shared change. You can add what you learned to the memory and it becomes easier to live with or benefit by.
Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.
Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.
I don't know, Mom. Now that I'm about to graduate, I plan on being more spontaneous."Mom opened her eyes and burst out laughing.I said, "Got spontaneity on the calendar for next Tuesday.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT
My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.
My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.
I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.
For Love...Real Love...The Kind Of Love That Lasts Forever...
There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.
So I went back in time and told her how I liked the smell of soil after the rain. It has a special place in my heart. It reminds me of my childhood days. Days spent in happiness and tranquility.
Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon, " he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.
What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears
Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!
Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile And trembl'd with fear at your frown!
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.
I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.