Memory Quotes

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Artâ€”the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain… — Lawrence Durrell
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my… — John Marsden
I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of… — Anne Lamott
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe
She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security… — Anthony Bourdain
They are all I have leftâ€”the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked… — Christopher Pike
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory — Alice Walker
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists… — Oscar Wilde
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory. — Milan Kundera
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to… — Tom Stoppard
Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were youngâ”€â”€now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — Siri Hustvedt
Memory changes as a person matures. — Siri Hustvedt
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal… — Siri Hustvedt
it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding… — Jodi Picoult
After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love.… — James A. Baldwin
But will they be together again? If they're reborn as new people with no memory of their previous lives, how can they find each other?"… — P. C. Cast
I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory… — Patton Oswalt
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that… — Khalil Gibran

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