Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. — Michel de Montaigne
People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane. — Kid Cudi
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities. — H. P. Lovecraft
Memories have to be our most painful blessing. — Kanye West
Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. — Richard Kadrey
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. — J. G. Ballard
I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. — Grace Kelly
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. — Willa Cather
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar
Maybe memories should be left the way they are. — Melina Marchetta
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky
If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia. — Richard Bandler
It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them. — Andy Mineo
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. — David Gerrold
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? — W. J. Wetherby
I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things. — Tim Robbins
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. — Steven Wright
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. — Seneca The Elder
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. — Seneca
Bad Memories Image Quotes
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Forget Bad Memories Quotes
Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day — Roger Meddows Taylor
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination. — Graham Greene
If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff — Geoff Dyer
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did. — Andy Warhol
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober. — Charles Caleb Colton
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good. — Varlam Shalamov
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones. — Mac O'Grady
My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name. — Miguel de Cervantes
Good And Bad Memories Quotes
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory — Ingrid Bergman
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. — Albert Schweitzer
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. — Samuel Beckett
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. — Robert Louis Stevenson
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them — Charles Caleb Colton
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories. — Lois Lowry
Old Bad Memories Quotes
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Robert Benchley
You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger. — Tommy Chong
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. — John Leonard
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. — John Leonard
Nothing is more responsible for the 'Good old days' than a bad memory. — Stephen Pinker
In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin
Painful Memories Quotes
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. — Angela Merkel
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
Our brains replay every painful memory from the past and every possible scary scenario from the future over and over, just like a complex computer simulation, in an attempt to scare us away from threats before they can happen and regardless of the probability of their happening at all. — Mo Gawdat
Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love . — John Gray
Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. — Johann Baptist Metz
I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever. — Natsuki Takaya
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. — Sophia Loren
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds. — Erin Morgenstern
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones — Cassandra Clare
Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free. — Lewis B. Smedes
Sad Memories Quotes
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously. — Julio Cortazar
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. — Haruki Murakami
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. — Brian Jacques
It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories. — Bonnie Blair
Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. — Nick Drake
It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother. — Grace Kelly
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can. — Nicholas Sparks
Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own. — Douglas Coupland
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected. — Allen West
Memories Are Painful Quotes
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks
The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I wish I could run my fingers along them and remove the pain and memories that are attached to them. — Jessica Sorensen
Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it. — Chris Cagle
Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories. — Jung Woo
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. — Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult. — Justin Torres
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? — Henry David Thoreau
I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful. — Pauley Perrette
Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain. — Ivan Goncharov
I want to live with all of my memories, even if they’re sad memories. I believe that if I stay strong, someday I’ll overcome the pain, and then I’ll be glad that I have those memories. I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget. — Natsuki Takaya
Old Memories Quotes
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. — Angela Carter
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — Erich Maria Remarque
It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face. — Wilson Rawls
From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops. — Rick Rubin
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. — Ricky Nelson
It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. — Matthew Walker
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. — Xavi
My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing. — Jake Paul
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up. — Bela Fleck
Always have old memories, and young hopes. — Arsene Houssaye
Past Memories Quotes
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. — Buddha
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. — Steven Wright
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn. — Brendon Urie
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. — Deborah Moggach
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert M. Pirsig
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. — Lewis B. Smedes
The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present. — Jack Kornfield
Memories Recall Quotes
You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories! — Joel Osteen
When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child. — Akira Toriyama
Nutrition significantly impacts mental function, memory, and emotional state, influencing the memories we recall and the ones projected into our consciousness. — Gary Brecka
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! — John Irving
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri. — Peter Matthiessen
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness? — Judith McNaught
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Childhood Memories Quotes
I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side. — Akira Toriyama
Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life. — Jake Paul
I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it. — Akira Toriyama
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else. — Vitalik Buterin
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. — Vitalik Buterin
What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. — River Phoenix
I may not be ‘the prettiest’ or have ‘big boobies,’ but I want people to remember me as the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I want to be remembered for just being myself and doing what I want to do. — KSI
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. — Mariska Hargitay
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. — Julius Caesar
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. — George C. Marshall
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads. — Ahmet Zappa
I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't. — Eddie Redmayne
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other. — Richard Russo
I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise. — Betty White
Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way. — J.A. Redmerski
Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences. — Elijah Wood
We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame. — Jan Chozen Bays
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. — Baltasar Gracian
Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events. — Jo Beverley
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are. — Abraham Lincoln
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. — Meghan O'Rourke
I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up. — Katy B
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten. — Mallory Ortberg
We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning. — Betty Williams
I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that. — Ester Dean
There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good? — John Huston
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. — Paulo Coelho
A bad conscience has a very good memory — Unknown
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. — E. M. Forster
I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad. — Lindsey Vonn
I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul. — Umberto Eco
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