Memory Quotes

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Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past. — Richard Linklater
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. — Louise GluÌˆck
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang… — William Butler Yeats
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while… — Thornton Wilder
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing… — Aldous Huxley
So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived — Truman Capote
What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a… — Joyce Carol Oates
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. — Ellen Hopkins
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness,… — Ellen Hopkins
They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh. — Shannon Hale
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a… — Khaled Hosseini
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J. G. Ballard
Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as… — John Muir
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick… — W. Somerset Maugham
Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have… — William Shakespeare
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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