2,914 Quotes About Memory




  • Author Maria Lehtman
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    The RemnantsWe carry small membranes of memories Within usAs do trees, flowers, stones,All life force around usFragments of memoriesEngraved in chips of iron, copper, silver...Interlaced in the workings of menIntertwined into the streets, buildings The networks around usPathways between agesEach carrying their Remnants of the past

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  • Author Anna Akhmatova
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    Instead of wisdom -- experience, bare,That does not slake thirst, is not wet.Youth's gone -- like a Sunday prayer.Is it mine to forget?On how many desert roads have searched IWith him who wasn't dear for me,How many bows gave in church IFor him, who had well loved me.I've become more oblivious than inviting,Quietly years swim.Lips unkissed, eyes unsmiling --Nothing will give me back him.

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  • Author Peter S. Beagle
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    You must remind me, little one. When I... when I lose myself - when I lose her - you must remind me that I am still searching, still waiting... that I have never forgotten her, never turned from all she taught me. I sit in this place... I sit... because a king has to sit, you see... but in my mind, in my poor mind, I am always away with her....

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  • Author Nelson Algren
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    I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?"He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd always thought that."Fellas have all the fun 'n she just sees one right after another, so it seems like HE'D remember her, better 'n SHE'D remember him, only it works the other way around. I ain't forgot one single fella, all these years. But I bet there ain't TWO 'd know me from a big of bananas this minute.

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  • Author Vladimir Nabokov
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    I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

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