Anita Diament Quotes

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.