130 No Memory Quotes

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Famous No Memory Quotes

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

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. - Julio Cortazar

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. — Aeschylus

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me. — Jules Renard

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart. — Joyce Carol Oates

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. — Edward De Bono

Memory is the scribe of the soul. — Aristotle

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film. — Steven Wright

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. — David Gerrold

Short No Memory Quotes

  • When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable — Martin Amis
  • Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. — Barbara Kingsolver
  • Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos
  • Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. — Kahlil Gibran
  • Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. — Antoine Rivarol
  • Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. — Paul Auster
  • Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing. — Elizabeth Loftus
  • The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. — Steven Wright
  • One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown

Top 10 No Memory Quotes

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — Guy de Maupassant

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world. — Masaru Emoto

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. — Stephen King

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. - Thomas Moore

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. — Thomas Moore

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.' — Richard Winters

I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there. — Stephen Hendry

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. — Carl Jung

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. - Cassandra Clare

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. — Cassandra Clare

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. — Abraham Lincoln

No Memory Image Quotes

No memory quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Do Not Forget Quotes

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. — Eileen Caddy

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard

Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him. — John of the Cross

No memory quote Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. — Pope John Paul II

And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. — Nate Saint

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. — Thomas Szasz

No memory quote Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. — Chaim Herzog

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. — Samuel P. Huntington

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please. — Bill Russell

Forget Memory Quotes

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices. — Harry S. Truman

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

It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them. — Andy Mineo

No memory quote The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

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

The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. — African Proverbs

You easily forget the eyes that don’t see you anymore — Greek Proverbs

The axe forgets but the tree remembers. — African Proverbs

I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget. — Eugene B. Sledge

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — Erich Maria Remarque

In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep the extermination of the Jews in memory even at my happiest hour. — Menachem Begin

Honoring Memory Quotes

Honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in which more than two million Ukrainian Jews died, Ukraine calls on Israel to also recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping. — George Washington

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation. — George Washington

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. — George C. Marshall

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. — Joseph Rodman Drake

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. — R. J. Palacio

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal. — Mitch Gaylord

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. — Doc Hastings

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. — Richard Watson Gilder

Short Memory Quotes

Life is short, but memories are eternal. — Mexican Proverbs

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. - Greg Maddux

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. — Greg Maddux

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. — Audrey Hepburn

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. — Timothy Leary

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. — Will Self

Originality is for people with short memories — Grayson Perry

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Doug Larson

You Too? I thought I was the only one. — C. S. Lewis

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. — Chris Bradford

Good Memory Quotes

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen Elizabeth II

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. — Queen Elizabeth II

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

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. - Grace Kelly

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. — Grace Kelly

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad

The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory - Ingrid Bergman

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

People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane. — Kid Cudi

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain

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Julio Cortazar

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Read quotes by Aeschylus

Aeschylus
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Steven Wright
quotes on life, work

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Oscar Wilde
quotes on love, love and marriage and life

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Jimmy Hoffa
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Read quotes by Joan Didion

Joan Didion
quotes on life, love and friendship

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More No Memory Quotes

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. — Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. — Thurgood Marshall

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

To jog the prisoners’ memories back to the reality of their grave situation we decided to show them atrocity films taken at Buchenwald. Colonel Andrus assembled his fifty-two Nazi prisoners in one room. Before the film began, he addressed them with the following words: You know about these things and I have no doubt many of you participated actively in them. We are showing them to you not to inform you of what you already know, but to impress on you the fact that we know of it, too. — Annie Jacobsen

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. — J. K. Rowling

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing. — Luis Bunuel

Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree. — William Morris

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan. — Irving Townsend

The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory. — Soren Kierkegaard

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it. — Max Perutz

The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese. — Mae Whitman

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. — George Herbert

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. — Kurt Cobain

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. — Elie Wiesel

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Carl Jung

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. — Robert Nathan

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality. — Joko Beck

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently. — Robert Evans

No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beauteous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in lovely April's name did hide, And leave it there, eternally allied To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people. — John Climacus

No day shall erase you from the memory of time — Virgil

There is no hope of joy except in human relations. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. — Rene Descartes

When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. — Terry Pratchett

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car. — August Strindberg

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