Memory Quotes

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I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As… — S.J. Watson
Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place; — Wystan Hugh Auden
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. — Julian Barnes
And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that… — Erich Maria Remarque
She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle. — Banana Yoshimoto
Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul… — Elizabeth Scott
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If… — Haruki Murakami
What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old… — Melina Marchetta
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was… — Julian Barnes
Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. — William Shakespeare
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory,… — Erma Bombeck
True love rules especially through memory. — Honore de Balzac
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have… — Dorothy L. Sayers
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to… — Sue Grafton
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white… — Alexander Shulgin
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will… — Neil Gaiman
I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least… — Robert Fulghum
He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world… — Diana Gabaldon
Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. — Joan Didion
Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things.… — Holly Black

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