Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

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

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

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

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

We'll Meet Again' is the one that means more to me than anything.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

To forget someone means to think of him.

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)

Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

Memory is not what the heart desires.