Memory Quotes

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This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above… — Rene Daumal
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite… — Charlotte Bronte
Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened… — Bob Dylan
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation… — Jorge Luis Borges
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The… — Abraham Lincoln
The history of a city was like the history of a familyâ€”there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.… — John Irving
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair… — Mitch Albom
Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of… — Anita Shreve
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then,… — Daphne du Maurier
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality… — Mark Helprin
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so… — Dean Koontz
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more. — Kate Mosse
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So… — Cormac McCarthy
Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. — Haruki Murakami

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