We Remember Quotes

206 quotes by 164 authors

It is our inward journey that leads us through time â€“ forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us… — Eudora Welty
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we… — Holly Black
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them. — John Irving
Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why… — Richard Ford
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember — Homer
It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a… — John Crowley
The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes.… — Jeffrey R. Holland
How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives. — Guy Gavriel Kay
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our… — Alan Bennett
There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we… — Jim Butcher
The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can… — Joshua Foer
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about… — John Green
Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light? — Francine Rivers
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or… — Milan Kundera
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us,… — Willie Nelson
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who… — Anna Funder
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be — Holly Black
The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. — Stephen King
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will… — C.S. Lewis

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