Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Related Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. NICHOLAS SPARKS Life is your world in pictures. Don’t just take memories, make memories. LILY CHATTERJEE You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest. COCO J. GINGER Don’t resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go. DEBASISH MRIDHA Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I know you’re just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you�... PLEASEFINDTHIS I want to live my life carrying my memories with me. Even if those memories are painful, even if tho... MOMIJI SOHMA (FRUITS BASKET) The most precious box was not made by gold and forged with rubies, emeralds or diamonds. But, it jus... KOMALAATHEVI REGUPAZI When memories fade, can one ever really return home? FLOYD SKLOOT Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to are the ones that hurt us the most. ELIZABETH MAY Don’t look back & ask why, move forward & say why not as curiosity keeps moving ,opening new door ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Don’t look back & waste your time, what you have lost, can be a lesson for you, nothing more than ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA -If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your c... MARTHA STOUT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends. J. J. WATT Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see. ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering the... IVAN TURGENEV See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them. RACHEL CAINE I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are ... PAT BOWLEN I don’t believe in coincidence or fate But I know one thing for sure Your face was meant... CASSIA LEO The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the fals... SALVADOR DALI The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the fa... SALVADOR DALI The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the fals... SALVADOR DALí The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the fals... SALVADOR DALí I push away the memories, I push them away with tears. So my longing heart could have this moment of... BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭 ベーゼル) I push away the memories, I push them away with tears. So my longing heart could feel a moment of re... BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭 ベーゼル) Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did tog... JAMES C. DOBSON Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. MARY QUANT Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices an... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The Muslim nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, where America is fighting two wars, are opposed to homos... SEN GARY NODLER If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl... DAVID LEVITHAN Don't stick with memories, go ahead and create a new ones! VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they f... CAROLINE GEORGE I don’t know how we can go into a partnership with them when we don’t have the information, GREG MILLER I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great m... SAM ROCKWELL We don’t have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas me... TOM NORTH Most entrepreneurs build businesses they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need, to im... JAYSON GAIGNARD I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want... CASSANDRA CLARE Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing. JENNIFER ARMENTROUT One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will n... NANA MOUSKOURI Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food ... MALLORY JANSEN Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori... HARUKI MURAKAMI Something ought to be said for those who see beyond what most cannot, and this most precious opportu... STEVEN CUOCO What are some of your most fondest memories of the Yamboree festival?, CHRISTINE NELSON Who do you think keeps this country safe so you can sleep at night?” “I don’t sleep most ... KADY CROSS Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul acco... FRANZ KAFKA I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people ... KAZUO ISHIGURO [The Victor Fleming-directed Gone With the Wind was originally marketed with the tagline] The most m... RHETT BUTLER To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys. MICHAEL KEATON I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dis... G.A. AIKEN I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies. RYNE SANDBERG It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I want to see your dreams,” he explained. “I want to share them with you, and have you share min... SYBIL SHAE I can’t imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla. Not that Josh would ever fall for me. ... STEPHANIE PERKINS Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life. SUNDAY ADELAJA I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was n... JOHN GREEN I don’t think that veterans have a distinct advantage, ... At most, it causes somebody to take ano... PAUL HACKETT Even if you’re not selling your stories yet, your writing time is precious, often gained at the ex... RACHEL AARON I played more years there, had success there and have most of my memories there. JESSE OROSCO Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. ... CASSANDRA CLARE let’s face it: Most girls are annoying. I mean, most humans are annoying, so it’s not specific t... JESSE ANDREWS I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grow... MITCH ALBOM But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It... RICK YANCEY The Lord is your shepherd; don’t ever say “I am lost”. He leads you to green pastures; don’t... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Irish Blessing - May the special memories that you hold, Be your precious true pot of gold. ~ Tom Ba... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN When you turn the page to write another chapter in your life, remember never to forget the memories ... JAMIE LEE ALBERT MASTERS Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Friends can create our most cherished memories. FENNEL HUDSON Most people do kiss and tell; most of them just don’t tell many people. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA No! I don’t love you! I just like you, a little. Your lips are sweet, an... ZORICA SAVRON someday no one will remember that she ever existed, i wrote in my notebook, and then, or that i did.... JOHN GREEN I just can't wait to come back, but what hurts me most, honey, is having to leave, ... That's home f... LORETTA LYNN Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shar... ANTHONY LICCIONE This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don’t know if I really want to leave it as much as ... REBECCA MCNUTT I don’t sell spells, and I don’t sell tricks. I don’t carry illusions or marked cards or weigh... BENEDICT JACKA That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And... NEIL GAIMAN I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever. K.A. TUCKER You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories. ERIC CANTONA John Mason wrote a very good book that I recommend you read: An Enemy Called Average. I learned from... JOHN MASON I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife. BILL ATKINSON Do you think because you can’t see my scars that they don’t exist?... Most People have thei... KARINA HALLE You don’t know anything, but I know even less. DEJAN STOJANOVIC The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sad... ASHLEY EARLEY Memories bring with them a devil called melancholy—oh, cruel demon that I cannot escape. Hearing PAULO COELHO Time is precious
If memories are gorgeous
I was religious
But i got meanless
Do god love me?
But he ... JAZZ The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ... DEXTER PALMER Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo... J.D. SALINGER Do you think it’s easy for me? No, I don’t remember you. I don’t remember holding you or talki... GWEN HAYES I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time i... INGRID BETANCOURT You’ve always wanted me. You know why? Because I don’t try to kill your demons. I run with them. PENELOPE DOUGLAS The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history... DEBI MAZAR It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most importan... ISHMAEL BEAH He strained his ears, and the darkness felt heavier than before. Oppressive. “We’re hungry.... LAURA KREITZER He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of ... CASSANDRA CLARE That’s probably the most sincere thing that I’ve ever heard come out of your mouth.” ELLA FRANK My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious. SHANNON HALE Don’t let them win, Marian. Don’t let them make you less than you are. Don’t let them take awa... ANNE BISHOP I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die. KAZUO ISHIGURO I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories. JOE SAKIC
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