No Memory Quotes

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspiring, Memories, Civilization

  "Amb. Nancy Brinker: We must never forget Elie Wiesel and his message" By Amb. Nancy Brinker, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2016.

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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Memories, Liars

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• I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Stupid, Computer

  "Build your foundation with basic". Q&A with Bill Gates, buffalonews.com. January 30, 1996.

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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

  George Herbert

  Memories, Men, Rocks

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.185

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• An angel has no memory.

  Terry Southern

  Memories, Angel

  "Fictional character: Pygar". "Barbarella", 1968.

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• Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

  Coco Chanel

  Memories, Original Thought, Originality

  "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

  Ani DiFranco

  Memories, Animal, Castles

  Song: Little Plastic Castle, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

  John Towner Williams

  Memories, Boys, Age

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• One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Memories, Rain, Oxygen

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• He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in the day's agenda, and arriving punctually at their destination, that the land beyond the car had been no more than a wash of one green, and a backdrop of one hill. Life was very different when you walked through it.

  Rachel Joyce

  Memories, Land, Car

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• He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, War, Convince Us

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• 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

  Memories, Ocean, Redemption

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• I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Memories, Loss, Men

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.

  Herman Melville

  Memories, Son, Past

  Herman Melville (1856). “The Piazza Tales”, p.267

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• America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Memories, Past, Rivers

  Marilyn Herbert, Khaled Hosseini (2006). “Book Club in a Box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel The Kite Runner”, p.51, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, War, Voice

  "The Shadow of the Wind". Book by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 2001.

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• A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Memories, Book, Needs

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• We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Night, Leaving

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• Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.56, Everyman's Library

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• Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Memories, Hands

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.464, Xist Publishing

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