Memory Quotes

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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness? — Ellen Hopkins
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn… — Bernhard Schlink
Talkâ€”half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet. — Janet Fitch
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves,… — Jack London
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written… — Jodi Picoult
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. — Isaac Asimov
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, HmÃ¡n, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It… — C.S. Lewis
Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. — H P Lovecraft
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a… — Isabel Allende
And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your… — Ted Dekker
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. — Richard Paul Evans
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I… — Rene Descartes
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf… — Deepak Chopra
Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead… — Irvin D. Yalom
A raznochinets needs no memoryâ€”it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam

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