Books Quote by Margaret Atwood

“Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go…

— José Luís Peixoto

“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,”…

— Sol Luckman

“Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory.”

— Laurent Binet

“Memory can only hold a piece of that which we lose, but it is a piece.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

— Aristotle

“These are amongst the last memories I shall relinquish to the page, though I am hanging onto them for now and for as long…

— J.S. Watts

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.

— Carol Berg

“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory…

— Orhan Pamuk

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.

— Melina Marchetta

“But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a…

— A. Lee Martinez

“about one’s life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We’re too busy standing in the middle of it…

— Pat Summitt