Gloria Grahame Quotes

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

Memory demands an image.

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

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

I don't forget nothing. It's a vault up here.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." . . . And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

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

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

Not to remember is not an option.

Most people think that 'I don't recall' is a clever answer. But it isn't that clever. You might not recall that you had bacon and eggs for breakfast- but if you killed your mother, you'll remember it.

What you remember saves you.

Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?