#memo

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before. ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor #memory #humor

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. ↗

— Stephanie Klein

#life #memoir #truth #humor

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before. ↗

— John Green

#loss #memory #remember

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#forgetting #happiness #memory #happy

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#blessed #blessing #enjoy #memory #must

Sweet is the memory of past troubles. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#past #sweet #troubles

By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#fighter #fighter pilot #forward #his #i

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#gave #god #memory #might #roses

Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 volt sexual charisma that beckons me like a fluff girl on scuffed knees. ↗

— Brett Tate

#funny #humor #humour #memoir #sex

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#memory #death