Memory Quotes

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It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a… — Marcel Proust
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine. — Charles Yu
I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true… — Carl De Keyzer
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well. — Nicolas Roeg
You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and… — Randy Carlyle
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. — Amos Bronson Alcott
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment… — Elie Wiesel
What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory. — Elie Wiesel
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it… — Charles Caleb Colton
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is… — Jayne Anne Phillips
We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a… — John Muir
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of… — Hartley Coleridge
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place… — John Dos Passos

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