Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: life memory diary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In memory everything seems to happen to music. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: memory perception music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does —Virginia Peterson More about this quote Tags: mind memory experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. —Doug Larson More about this quote Tags: memory regret conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History fades into fable, fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy, the inscription molders from the tablet, the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids — what are they but heaps of sand, and their epitaphs but characters written in the dust? —Washington Irving More about this quote Tags: history memory myth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them. —John Boyne in Mutiny on the Bounty More about this quote Tags: memory forgetting events Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It’s, like, part of you for good. —Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye More about this quote Tags: love memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. —Jenny Han in The Summer I Turned Pretty More about this quote Tags: beauty memory seasons summer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. —John Updike in My Father’s Tears and Other Stories More about this quote Tags: love reality memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They tell you you’ll forget how it used to be. You’ll get used to it, that it’s better to move on. They don’t realize you can’t. You’re not the same person anymore. —Amanda Sun in Ink More about this quote Tags: memory identity change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory. —Virginia Peterson More about this quote Tags: love memory marriage divorce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. —Eugene McCarthy More about this quote Tags: news politics memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter what anybody says about grief, and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken. —Tiffanie DeBartolo in God-Shaped Hole More about this quote Tags: memory sorrow grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: memory error immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email