Memories Quotes - Page 35

• And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.

  Khalil Gibran

  Years, Yesterday, Lips

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Shame has poor memory.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Shame, Poor, Poor Memory

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• The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Names, Gone

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.98, A&C Black

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• The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

  Deborah Smith

  Pieces, Might, Hardest

  Deborah Smith (2011). “A Place to Call Home”, p.4, Bantam

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• For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Collective Memory, Would Be

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

  Jodi Picoult

  Years, Two, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

  Alan Lightman

  Morning, Passion, Kissing

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.52, Vintage

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• Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

  Craig Clevenger

  Past, Way, Forget

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• I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jobs, Block, Twilight

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?

  Stephen Dobyns

  Hurt, Thinking, Men

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• Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.

  Ai Yazawa

  Would Be, Enough, Leaving Me

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• Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.

  Nicole Krauss

  Father, Years, Vivid

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.

  Lisa See

  Sister, Daughter, Growing Up

  Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.412, Random House

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• Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

  Juliet Marillier

  Darkness, Alive, Goodness

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night.

  Ai Yazawa

  Distance, Taken, Sleep

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• To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Secret, Littles, Youth

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “Three Comrades: A Novel”, p.170, Random House

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• I wrap my arms around his neck, feel his arms hesitate before they embrace me. Not as steady as they once were, but still warm and strong. A thousand moments surge through me. All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone for ever.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sweet, Strong, Gone

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Past, Feelings, Guides

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• 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 a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.

  Nicole Krauss

  Hurt, Fall, Clouds

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.138, Anchor

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• 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 would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

  John Steinbeck

  Thinking, Long, Joy

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.51, Penguin

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• 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 means anymore.

  Orson Scott Card

  Beautiful, Mean, Play

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.178, Macmillan

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• I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Men, Dust

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.233, Penguin

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

  Carol Berg

  Soul

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• 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 set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

  Lord Byron

  Past, Thinking, Genuine Love

  George Gordon Byron, “Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness”

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• My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Quilts, Light, Firsts

  "An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe".

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