Quotes and sayings about tag  memory

29 Quotes

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Jodi Picoult

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

Lois Lowry

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Michael Ondaatje

Scars are just another kind of memory.

M.L. Stedman

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

Octavia E. Butler

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Marilynne Robinson

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

Vladimir Nabokov

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Mark Twain

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Stephen King

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Steven Wright

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

W.B. Yeats

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Will Self

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