Memory Quotes

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There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had… — Elizabeth Strout
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was,… — Elizabeth Scott
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones. — Kim Edwards
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than… — C.S. Lewis
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I… — Sarah Dessen
Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it… — Cecil Castellucci
It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory… — Laurell K. Hamilton
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. — Frances Mayes
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. — Ben Jonson
[...]my memory is reasonably goodâ€”unlike yours, dear sir!â€ â€œMine is erratic,â€ he said imperturbably. â€œI remember only what interests me. — Georgette Heyer
Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago.… — Wilhelm Reich
My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They… — Mary E. Pearson
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous â€” a crisis without equal on earth, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined. — Sarah Dessen
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the… — Terry Pratchett
Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye… — Maggie Stiefvater
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are… — Elie Wiesel

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