No Memory Quotes
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.
When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.
Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?
Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.
I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?
