Bad Memories Quotes

“The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Diary of a Superfluous Man

“Maybe if you carried bad memories around long enough, they started to change how you walked, how you talked. How you thought.”
― Julia Keller

“Life isn’t in our brain // It flows through our veins.
Just a little cut to drain out the galaxies that keep me up tonight.
Just a little cut and all this goes away. Just a little cut and no more thoughts. No memories. No pain. I mean screw nostalgia.
I don’t want it. Take it back!”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.'
It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It dropped ice to the bottom of his stomach. He thought of the ruined bodies he'd seen, including the ones he himself had ruined. He realized that he had somehow expected that he'd never have to think again about the way people damage other people.
The night of the invasion. Kestrel's back. His own. Roshar's scarred face. His own.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“Bad memories are like splinters. Sometimes painful, but you learn to live with them. The problem is, they always work their way to the surface eventually.

[the Rev. Jack Brooks]”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“What a day it has been, what a day indeed. It is one I'd rather forget than remember, and yet it doesn't work that way. We bury the bad memories deep, but they don't go away. They're within us all the time.

[Molly Gray]”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.”
― Shelley Noble, Beach Colors

“Letting you go was easy. The memory. Not so much.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The more I remember, the greater my agony.”
― Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave

“Sometimes the good memories are just as painful as the bad ones.”
― Emory R. Frie, Neverland

“Sometimes it feels like life is there to teach you as many things about hurting as it can. That may be true. You can experience all the trouble you want, but that don’t mean you have to spend all your time thinking about it. Bad memories have long shadows. Spend the rest of your life inside of them and you never get warm.”
― R.J. Ellory, Bad Signs

“... bad memories always seem to have a way of being remembered over the good.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Keep the good memories and throw out the bad ones”
― Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics

“I had finally begun to understand Seth’s relationship with his flask, how some days, the memories grew too heavy to bear.”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“Blessed are the children with the boon of innocence that creates a shield of forgetfulness around them to keep them from being tormented by bad memories and grudges.”
― Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“I wish
I had known
I was never
going to
see you again
because I would have
spent more time
clinging to the good
we did have
instead of
clinging to the bad
I couldn't
change.”
― Amanda Lovelace, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

“My memories keep crashing into me, sneaker waves drowning the present.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“When pain inspires you, your thoughts scream its lungs out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts