No Memory Quotes
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.
Preservation of the past has been one of humankind’s chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving.
I would give anything to have that memory back--to see what it was like between us when we loved each other enough to believe it was forever.
No one can soothe my inner being like you. No one can make me look to the future with such excitement like you did. No one can understand me, fulfill me, fit me like you did." ~Emma Ranstein
The feelings that still linger, decade after decade, aren’t just the residue of a love lost. They are as real as the first day I told her I loved her." ~Corbin Jones, Voice of Innocence
The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, and the places we keep them get weaker with age.
For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.
The experience of life should mature you. It is your choice to transform a memory into a wound or wisdom.
Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.
Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.
Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind.
I thought I can throw away all my memories but whenever I tell my mind to do it, memories stick it more...!!
Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost…cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow.
My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am.
When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.
If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.
This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.
To remember nothing, " they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?
Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?
It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.
Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.
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There was something in the back of my brain, tapping its fingers on the door to my memory.
He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.
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.
He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.
When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
Some people would never forget certain people, a few people would remember everyone, and most of us would mostly be forgotten.
To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.
Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent.
Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind.
I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real, endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.
It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...
Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.
But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.
There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.
Other than that, we have each told the truth, and each truth is our own.