Memory Quotes
3512 quotes by 2234 authors
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Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
— will.i.am
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Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have…
— Viswanathan Anand
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Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a…
— Niecy Nash
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I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my…
— Arjun Rampal
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If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.
— Nick Drake
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
— Pat Conroy
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of…
— C.S. Lewis
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Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private…
— Pablo Neruda
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
— William Faulkner
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
— Oscar Wilde
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So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see…
— Stephen King
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Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
— Umberto Eco
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I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had…
— Samuel Beckett
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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors…
— Mark Twain
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From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the…
— Shelby Foote
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We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack…
— Harlan Ellison
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