Memory Quotes

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In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates. — Patricia Hampl
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies… — Patricia Hampl
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling. — Patricia Hampl
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory. — Patricia Hampl
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory. — Bernard Beckett
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its… — Dennis Etchison
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but… — Rasmus Lerdorf
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We… — Chris Marker
I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves. — Harriet Doerr
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough,… — Danilo Kis
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we… — Alice Steinbach
I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored… — Alex Gaskarth
I write to breathe life back into memory. — Bernice L. McFadden
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs… — James Whistler
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to… — Rumer Godden
Oh, to have â€œthe word of Christâ€ always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really… — Charles Spurgeon
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes. — Jeanette
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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