Memories Quotes

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She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. — Frank Deford
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. — Frank Herbert
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile. — George Eliot
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs. — George Eliot
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we… — George Santayana
Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer… — Henry Ward Beecher
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. — Hortense Calisher
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. — Ivan KlÃma
I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Memory is what makes us young or old. — Alfred de Musset
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function… — Margaret Barber
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories. — Nicholas Sparks
Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow. — Philip Moeller
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses -… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Our memories are independent of our wills. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. — Robert Aris Willmott
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. — Samuel Johnson
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views… — James M. Barrie
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do. — Stefan Zweig
Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own. — Stephen King
We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch. — Surya Das
I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream. — Susanna Moore

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