Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Levithan

It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

David Levithan

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

David Eddings

The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had a special warm feeling for kitchens and those peculiar sounds and smells that seemed somehow to combine into a bustling seriousness that had to do with love and food and comfort and security and, above all, home. No matter how high Garion rose in life, he never forgot that all his memories began in that kitchen.

Delmore Schwartz

Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.

Delia Smith

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

Deepak Chopra

Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.

Deepak Chopra

Use memories. Don't let memories use you.

Anthony Marra

There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.

Chuck Palahniuk

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

Alfred de Vigny

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Alfred de Musset

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Alfred de Musset

Memory is what makes us young or old.

Alfonso Ribeiro

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

Angela Carter

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Amy Tan

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

Amy Tan

And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.

Amy Tan

That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.

Amy Tan

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

Amy Tan

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

Alphonse Karr

We can invent only with memory.

Anthony Burgess

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

Anthony Burgess

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

Anthony Burgess

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

Anthony Bourdain

Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.

Anthony Bourdain

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Andy Warhol

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

David Greene

I think it's a little too soon. The memories are still fresh, the wounds still raw.

Carl Jung

And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.

Sarah McLachlan

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

Aaliyah

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

Aaliyah

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.