Ned Rorem Quotes

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

Every moment is memorable to me.

Yesterday is just a memory.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

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

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Memories, priceless. Well not really priceless, but there you go!

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.