Memory Quotes

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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint… — Haruki Murakami
Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be. — Walt Disney
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where… — Stephen King
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without… — Luis Bunuel
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it. — Emily Dickinson
Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent… — Albert Pike
Memoï»¿ry was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything. — Anne Rice
If youâ€™re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly… — William Gibson
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. — Jodi Picoult
If you ask me, music is the language of memory — Jodi Picoult
But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone. — Terry Pratchett
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing. — Mary Balogh
Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two… — Gustave Flaubert
There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy… — Jennifer Donnelly
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep… — Haruki Murakami
Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

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