Memory Quotes

• We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Clear

• I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.

  

  Steve Bisley
  • Actor
  • Memory
  • Observer

• Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

  

  Brian Ruckley
  • Heart
  • Loss
  • Ruin

• Euphoric memory. That’s what Adam called it. Some of you guys even get high remembering.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Memory
  • Guys
  • Remembering

• Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage – plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Feel

• A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

  

  George Santayana
  • Country
  • Memory
  • Madmen

• I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Memory
  • Reader
  • Trifles

• Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Memory
  • Functions

• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Memory
  • Advantage
  • Good Things

• I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

  

  Steve Bisley
  • Remember
  • Memory
  • Curse

• Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

  

  Alexandre Dumas-fils
  • Fate
  • Memory
  • Paradise

• The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Learn
  • Model
  • Masters

• I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Memory
  • Breathe
  • Heartache

• Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Homeopaths

• People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don’t, because part of our ability to survive and not to be depressed is to forget a lot of stuff.

  

  Anthony Greenwald
  • Depression
  • Memory
  • Survive

• Sometimes it's a negative because I still have a memory of some of the things I could do... when I still had two arms.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Memory
  • Negative

• Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Need
  • Memory
  • Hangs

• The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Memory
  • I Remember
  • Mobiles

• I don't think I remember my first memory...

  

  Hannah Hart
  • Memory

• I think I’d felt that as long as I avoided looking for the tickets, they would be there; it was only if I searched the archive that they’d disappear, as if the past were up until that point indeterminate, that I might outrun it. Do you know what I mean? We had to pay a lot of money to get the tickets for the next day; luckily they still had seats, although I suppose there are usually seats to and from Kansas City. It was kind of like that, recovering the memory of what my father had done. The knowledge was always there, I carried it in my body, but I didn’t know what I knew, although I knew I knew something and that I dreaded knowing it fully, dreaded it as if only coming into the knowledge, into the memory, would make the event that I was repressing real.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Money
  • Father
  • Knowledge

• Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Work
  • Everyone
  • Happened

• Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Beginning
  • Memory
  • Paper

• And—for the longest second—how he’d wanted to jump in an ocean, scrub himself raw until all of his skin was gone so he could grow a new outer shell, a shell that man hadn’t touched, and he hated how everything came back to him in an instant almost as if it wasn’t a memory at all but a moment in time he was condemned to live and relive, a scene in his life he’d have to step into over and over again until he got his lines right, but he would always get it wrong.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Ocean
  • Hated
  • Relive

• You never know when you're making a memory.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Memory
  • Making

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