Memory Quotes

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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker — Bram Stoker
Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs… — Arundhati Roy
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over… — Arundhati Roy
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must… — Brian Jacques
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,… — John Fowles
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing… — Jonathan Safran Foer
All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all… — Juliet Marillier
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so… — Michel Houellebecq
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the… — Tennessee Williams
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine. — Samantha Hunt
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over… — Laurie Halse Anderson
â€¦ she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a… — Steve Toltz
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces… — Dante Alighieri
Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?â€ Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory.… — Karen Marie Moning
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has… — Elie Wiesel
I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever. — Jodi Picoult
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first… — Alan Lightman
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can… — R A Salvatore

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