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Memories Quotes by Joan Didion
- Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may…
- Marriage is memory, marriage is time.
- We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
- Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
- Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.
- Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
- You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.…
- Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum…
More Memories Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu