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Memory Quotes by Marcel Proust
- The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future…
- Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.
- Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a…
- It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a…
- There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of…
- We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to…
- ...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..
- Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
- The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…
More Memory Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
- For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an… — John Banville
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie