Memory Quotes
3512 quotes by 2271 authors
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Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory.…
— Kate Atkinson
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I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she…
— John Green
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I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them,…
— John Green
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It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.
— Meg Cabot
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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here…
— Dante Alighieri
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The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.
— Rick Yancey
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I…
— Marge Piercy
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A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with…
— Matthew Reilly
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Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment,…
— Daniel Goleman
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in…
— Louisa May Alcott
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He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
— Norton Juster
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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than…
— Paulo Coelho
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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion…
— Michel Foucault
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Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would…
— Abbi Glines
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For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
— Jodi Picoult
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
— Pat Conroy
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The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that…
— Alain de Botton
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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor…
— Carl Sagan
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