Memory Quotes

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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of… — Umberto Eco
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. — Marilynne Robinson
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,… — Marilynne Robinson
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins
memory is the only way home. — Terry Tempest Williams
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in… — Dean Koontz
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in… — C.S. Lewis
What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... — Tim O'Brien
The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. — Michael Ignatieff
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of… — Lord Byron
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of… — Margaret Mitchell
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. — Marilynne Robinson
I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf,… — Mitch Albom
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads… — Tim O'Brien
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. — Herman Melville

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