Memory Quotes
3512 quotes by 2271 authors
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The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting…
— Pope Francis
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He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
— Junot Diaz
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...pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or…
— Jenny Lawson
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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
— Lauren Beukes
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A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly…
— Liane Moriarty
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And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that lives with me,…
— Tatiana de Rosnay
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There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't…
— Matthew Quick
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...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that…
— J.A. Redmerski
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Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside…
— Naoki Higashida
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I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word…
— Haruki Murakami
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Love is . . .†An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled…
— Richelle Mead
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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one.…
— Stephen King
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There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with…
— Peter Rollins
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum…
— Joan Didion
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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory…
— Margaret Thatcher
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