2,914 Quotes About Memory

You must become a rational being that is capable to balance everything, big and small acts in life.

In Sunday school, love was taught like blueberriesbaking in crust: let simmer & don't eat it all at once.I always ate too much until my plate emptied. I don't wantto go, but I am alone in this feeling. Left to carry it gracefullyuntil I'm alive in someone else's memory.

I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in the world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn't.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

But that's the problem with the present, it's never the thing you're holding, only the thing you're watching, later, from a distance so great the memory might as well be a spill of stars outside a window at twilight.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

He remembered that he did have one thing going for him – his memory.

Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day.But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away.When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute.Remember a searing look of intimate eyes.Receive the inner fire.

Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.