Memory Quotes

3512 quotes by 2145 authors

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without… — Italo Calvino
Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We… — Megan Whalen Turner
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died… — Stephen King
We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened… — Nicholas Sparks
Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film. — Steven Wright
When I was 14, a camp counselor explained what "eating out" was and I vowed to never have it done to me. It seemed cannibalistic… — Sloane Crosley
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together,… — Sarah Dessen
And never forget, there is memory. — John Irving
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. — George Eliot
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all… — Diana Gabaldon
Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always… — Peter Kropotkin
...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.. — Marcel Proust
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from… — Peter Kropotkin
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when… — Orson Scott Card
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a… — Marguerite Duras
And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory. — Andy Warhol
Memory is a strange Bellâ€”Jubilee, and Knell. — Emily Dickinson
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got… — Tim O'Brien
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they… — Neil Gaiman
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some… — Cormac McCarthy

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