Memory Quotes

3512 quotes by 2234 authors

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It… — Gregory Maguire
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of… — Tom Stoppard
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it — Jodi Picoult
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams. — Pat Conroy
Memory is the happiness of being alone. — Lois Lowry
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory… — John Steinbeck
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the… — Dante Alighieri
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory. — Franz Kafka
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop â€“ a big enough one so that the staff wouldnâ€™t hassle a browser… — Francis Spufford
The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any… — William Butler Yeats
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was… — Cormac McCarthy
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the… — Sandra Boynton
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr.… — Joyce Brothers
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. — Les Brown
...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened. — Marguerite Duras

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