Memory Quotes

3512 quotes by 2145 authors

I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from… — H. Rider Haggard
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in… — Madeline Miller
It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also… — Elie Wiesel
It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his… — Terry Pratchett
Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying to commit the… — Cassandra Clare
Iâ€™ll still be missing you as much as ever. Iâ€™l still smile at the memory of you. Iâ€™ll still be - Okay, Iâ€™ll say it… — Jerry Spinelli
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles… — Homer
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: â€˜A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral… — Oliver Sacks
It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of… — Nancy Horan
Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last. — Juan Rulfo
How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs… — Amitav Ghosh
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. — Oliver Sacks
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most… — Wallace Stegner
Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a… — Frederick Buechner
Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of… — Jeanette Winterson
Frankly, the image of his father wearing bell-bottoms, smoking a joint, and calling his mother a â€œtotally groovy chickâ€ was wrong on so many levels… — Julie James
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. — Lionel Shriver
...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present. — Jamaica Kincaid
Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory. — Ann Brashares

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