Memories Quotes
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
Friendship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it's to leave, and you can never go without leaving your footprints behind.
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart
In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.
True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.
...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.
If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.
All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.
For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.