Quotes of: Great-memories Keyword

...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...

A Familiar Rain

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be remembered.

The Forgotten Soldier

Memories hold you back; their weight crushes your spirit.

Grounded: The Untold Story of Peter Pan & Captain Hook

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

Golda Slept Here

Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

The Good Psychologist

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

Guardian

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

The Guardian

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Grace

Chronology of any event worked best in obituaries. It had no place in the world of sentiment, where memories, ideas and assumptions co-existed side by side.

The Governess

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

The Giver

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Gone with the Wind

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

Gazelle

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

On the Heights of Despair

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten

The Burning Brand: Diaries, 1935-1950

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

Bring Up the Bodies

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

The Beautiful and Damned

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

Blood Memory

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

Boy Proof