Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities. — H. P. Lovecraft
Short Painful Memories Quotes
Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. — Indian Proverbs
It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them. — Andy Mineo
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. — Aesop
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. — Seneca The Elder
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein
Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos
We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch. — Surya Das
Painful Memories Image Quotes
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Past Painful Memories Quotes
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
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
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. — Lois Lowry
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future. — Bryant H. McGill
You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them. — Iyanla Vanzant
I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future. — Max Muller
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened. — Derek Magyar
The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can. — Augusten Burroughs
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Painful Love Memories Quotes
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
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks
Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter. — Marianne Williamson
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.
At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And though it may be hard to believe right now Know that the pain will ease with time And you will look back at the memories of your dear one And smile and remember a life well lived and loved. — Margaret Jones
Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds. — Louise Hay
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. — Lyster
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. — Jerome K. Jerome
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. — Jodi Picoult
Memories Are Painful Quotes
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
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
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
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
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
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
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
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. — Julius Caesar
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. — Steven Wright
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown
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
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
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
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
I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever. — Natsuki Takaya
Someday this pain will be useful to you.
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
Vivid Memories Quotes
[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration. — Edwin Land
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today. — Jim Davis
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. — Sister Parish
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. — Steven Pinker
How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past. — Jackie Kay
You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident. — Isaac Marion
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination. — Susan Kay
Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. — John Irving
I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape. — James Vincent McMorrow
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
Painful Past Quotes
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer. — Bryant H. McGill
God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can. — Ginger Baker
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. — Lu Xun
The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever. — Fred Durst
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget. — Paul Gillmor
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood. — Helen Hunt Jackson
When every minute of your day is planned & you are packed for days,
you shall soon realize that the pain of past fades, vision of life gets
clearer and all that seemed to poison your life Ceases to exist. — Sujit Lalwani
Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal. — Joyce Meyer
In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite. — Bob Dylan
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
Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. — Johann Baptist Metz
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
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
Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself. — Herbert Benson
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us. — John Ruskin
I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world. — Charles Bukowski
Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods. — Aeschylus
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden
May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain. — Stephen King
Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet. — Li-Young Lee
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
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
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. — Carl Jung
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. — Dante Alighieri
memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain. — Gail Caldwell
Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all. — Harlan Coben
When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed. — R. C. Sproul
When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host. — Susan L. Taylor
It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right. — Mark Vonnegut
One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you. — Sylvia Day
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. — Deepak Chopra
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. — Barbara Kingsolver
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. — Elizabeth Drew
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
The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of. — Kenny Smith
I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory. — Stephenie Meyer
Touched by an Angel - We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. — Maya Angelou
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! — Thomas Moore
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