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Memories Quotes by John Green
- Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my…
- In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is…
- The town was paper, but the memories were not.
- My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended -…
- If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
- Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too.…
- Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If…
- memories fall apart too.
- The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant…
- One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or…
- What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world…
- The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.
- You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever…
- I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she…
- I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them,…
- The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. -…
- I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
- And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just…
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