Memory Quotes

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There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain. — Azar Nafisi
But we never get back our youthâ€¦ The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.… — Oscar Wilde
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that… — Roald Dahl
Time's the thief of memory — Stephen King
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly… — Lorrie Moore
And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. — George MacDonald
Life knows us not and we do not know lifeâ€”-we donâ€™t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… — Joseph Conrad
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. — Oliver Sacks
His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing. — Lisa Kleypas
Books, too, begin like the week â€“ with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday. — Walter Benjamin
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly… — Diana Gabaldon
If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a… — Gena Showalter
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance. — Kate Morton
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. — Toni Morrison
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment… — Douglas Coupland

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