Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Bronte

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

Emily Giffin

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

Emily Dickinson

Remorse is memory awake.

Emily Dickinson

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Emeril Lagasse

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

Ellen Potter

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Edward T. Hall

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Holly Black

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

Holly Black

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Holly Black

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

Henry Steele Commager

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Henry Van Dyke

So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

Henry Van Dyke

For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Henrik Ibsen

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

Henri Nouwen

Forgiveness indeed heals memories

Henri Nouwen

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Henri Nouwen

When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love, a love which is not simply a recollection of a bygone past but a living force which sustains us in the present. Through memory, love transcends the limits of time and offers hope at any moment of our lives.

Heinrich Boll

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

Hedy Lamarr

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Heidi Julavits

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

Heidi Julavits

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

Heidi Julavits

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

Hjalmar Schacht

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties

Herta Muller

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,

Heston Blumenthal

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

Hideo Kojima

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

Hilary Mantel

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

Hilary Mantel

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

Hilaire Belloc

Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

Henry Ward Beecher

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.