2,914 Quotes About Memory
- Author Lauren Beukes
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You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time.
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- Author Naguib Mahfouz
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Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.
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- Author Lang Leav
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I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is the source of great beauty in our lives, yet the cause of such heartache. It remains the bridge between our past and present - it gives weight and dimension to our very existence.
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- Author Milan Kundera
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When we study, discuss, analyze a reality, we analyze it as it appears in our mind, in our memory. We know reality only in the past tense. We do not know it as it is in the present, in the moment when it's happening, when it is. The present moment is unlike the memory of it. Remembering is not the negative of forgetting. Remembering is a form of forgetting.[...] We die without knowing what we have lived.
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror....
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- Author Stephen King
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At such times one sees everything and remembers it all. I know from personal experience. I wish I did not.
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- Author Barry López
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Stories do not give instruction, they do not explain how to love a companion or how to find God. They offer, instead, patterns of sound and associations, of event and image. Suspended as listeners and readers in these patterns, we might reimagine our lives. It is through story that we embrace the great breadth of memory, that we can distinguish what is true, and that we may glimpse, at least occasionally, how to live without despair in the midst of the horror that dogs and unhinges us.
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- Author Jenny Toune
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memory is a shallow grave
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- Author Abby Geni
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To remember is to rewrite. To photograph is to replace. The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have been forgotten. They are the dark rooms of the mind. Unopened, untouched, and uncorrupted.
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