Memory Quotes

3512 quotes by 2145 authors

A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's… — Kazuya Minekura
Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you… — Julian Barnes
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on… — Markus Zusak
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent… — Maggie Stiefvater
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers… — Yehuda Amichai
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left… — Chuck Palahniuk
I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the… — Natalie Goldberg
The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. — Sara Gruen
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls… — Algernon Blackwood
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the… — John Steinbeck
We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished… — Richelle Mead
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a… — Louis Armstrong
And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you… — Jerry Spinelli
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing… — Alexander Lowen
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. — Arundhati Roy
Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding. — Leonardo da Vinci
I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful memory, even though this memory makes my… — Natsuki Takaya
Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory. — Douglas Coupland

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