Quotes about Memory

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I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes — Vladimir Nabokov
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as the — Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in — George Eliot, Adam Bede
I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can — Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew — Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. — Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. — Amy Carmichael
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? — Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vas — Ann Druyan
You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. — Vladimir Nabokov
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. — Antonio Porchia
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, — Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. — Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memo — Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You — Cormac McCarthy, The Road
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the g — David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. — Jane Austen, Persuasion
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. — Marilynne Robinson, Gilead