Memory Quotes

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In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain. — Diane von Furstenberg
The memory fades, and Iâ€™m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words. — Marie Lu
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp… — Donna Tartt
If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like… — Catherynne M. Valente
When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it. — Max Frisch
There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've… — David Levithan
All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the… — Robert Jordan
Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of… — Janet Frame
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.â€ MallarmÃ© repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;… — Jorge Luis Borges
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the… — Oscar Wilde
I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to… — Julian Barnes
But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip. — Bernard Beckett
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into… — Sloane Crosley
Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must… — Nicholas G. Carr
Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation. — Anne Rice
What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world… — John Green
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. — John Green
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. — C.S. Lewis

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