Emotional Memory Quotes

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

I believe in love in hindsight, meaning attraction and connection can be remembered as love at first sight. But how could you possibly know at first sight? That's too much pressure to put on a relationship.

The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

But it was smell that carried memory.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture