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Memories Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
- Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most…
- We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that…
- Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever…
- Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
- Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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