Memory Quotes

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He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough. — Ai Yazawa
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the… — Mahatma Gandhi
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or… — George R. R. Martin
Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet… — Nicole Krauss
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time… — John Steinbeck
I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful… — Orson Scott Card
They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they… — Lord Byron
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling… — Carl Sagan
Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart. — Brian Jacques
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. — Graham Greene
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing. — Cormac McCarthy
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly… — Gustave Flaubert
She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will. — Ian Mcewan
I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's… — Jacqueline Woodson
Only those with no memory insist on their originality. — Coco Chanel
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our… — Charles Frazier
Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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