Rick Yancey Quotes

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

He who suffers, remembers.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Does anyone remember laughter?

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.