Memory quotations

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◆ I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

- Beryl Markham99

◆ God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

- J.M. Barrie99

◆ But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

- Isaac Marion99

◆ Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

- John Irving99

◆ Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

- Marcel Proust99

◆ Touch has a memory.

- John Keats99

◆ The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

- Pittacus Lore99

◆ I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people's time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez99

◆ Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

- Haruki Murakami99

◆ 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 you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

- Raymond Carver99

◆ It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

- Ally Condie99

◆ Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

- Eudora Welty99

◆ Love is like falling down... in the end you're left hurt, scared, and with a memory of it forever.

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