Memory Quotes

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That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person… — Amy Tan
That is the beauty of memory, isnâ€™t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tell me of a happy memory, Zarek. One thing in your life that was good. (Astrid) You. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a… — Holly Black
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy… — Daniel J. Siegel
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. — Lisa Unger
Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart. — John Marsden
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — Guy de Maupassant
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is… — Howard Pyle
No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or… — J.R.R. Tolkien
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've… — Eoin Colfer
We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will… — Colum McCann
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and… — Vladimir Nabokov
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a… — Elizabeth Gilbert
And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds… — Wendell Berry
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the… — Ann Brashares

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