Memory Quotes

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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life,… — Albert Camus
On the bed, Eugenides stirred restlessly. "Upset at the sight of blood?" he said. "Not my wife, Ornon." "Your blood," the ambassador pointed out. Eugenides… — Megan Whalen Turner
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart. — Joyce Carol Oates
Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his… — John Steinbeck
Memory, prophecy, and fantasyâ€” The past, the future, and The dreaming moment betweenâ€” Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that… — Clive Barker
Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant. — David Levithan
Iâ€™m not just taking trips down memory lane; Iâ€™m broken down on it. — Pete Wentz
The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. -… — John Green
I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation. — John Green
All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I… — Raymond Carver
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself. — Alfred de Musset
Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot… — Jodi Picoult
You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then… — Rajneesh
Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken… — Cassandra Clare
No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities… — Cassandra Clare
There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. — John Boyne
This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times. A voice that… — Cassandra Clare
You must never forget it if that's an important memory to you. Especially when a person dies, he can only live in the memories of… — Gosho Aoyama

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