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The awareness of happiness comes after, in memory, with the belated appreciation of the moment. — Anne Rice

A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife. — Matsuo Basho

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. — Jerry Saltz

Play Mozart in memory of me. — Frederic Chopin

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. — Philip Roth

Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory. — Craig Lancaster

[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity. — Temple Grandin

And of all the rooms in my childhood,
God was the largest
and most empty. — Li-Young Lee

Time blunts the pain and creates a mist over one's memory - at least in the case of death and sorrow. Other types of pain linger longer. — Melanie Dickerson

Use this day to honor the memory of Christmas - whilst it remains celebrated in your life. — Eleesha

imagination in looking to the future. Memory is the ground of dreaming. — Gerald G. May

The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you'll have of that situation in the long run. — Abhijit Naskar

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. — Gladys Taber

There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory. — J.A. Baker

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them. — Oscar Wilde

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. — Jon Wynne-Tyson

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. — Gustave Flaubert

It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. 'But — Raymond E. Feist

The dull parts of life spread out in your memory and crowd out the exciting parts until they just seem like little flashes. (Ron Weasley) — G. Norman Lippert

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole. — Alexander Pope

Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time. — Marilynne Robinson

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. — Oscar Wilde

I am daily learning
To be the reluctant guardian of your memories
There was light in those eyes; I miss that — Richard L. Ratliff

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms. — Holly Black

Reflection is the souls moment to embrace a memory, bury it deep in your heart and allow the echoes of the memory to beat with your heart. — Lisa Elliott

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences. — J.G. Holland

Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. — Annie Proulx

The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo.
The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow. — Farrah Naseem

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall — John Green

Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility. — Henry Chadwick

We become aware, with amazement, that we have forgotten nothing, every memory evoked rises in front of us painfully clear. — Primo Levi

Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution. — Eric Hobsbawm

Travelers we are, in this journey of memory. Aboard together we might, and get off at different times.

Still, memory lingers. — Anonymous

The feel of him would forever be etched in her memory.And cause an eternity of torment. — Robin Bielman

The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting. — Scott Hamilton

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett

There is excitement in a new kiss, but there is a quality of memory and intimacy in kissing someone you've kissed often before. I — Robert B. Parker

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. — Dante Alighieri

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory. — Honore De Balzac

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. — George R R Martin

,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them. — Machado De Assis

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. — Taylor Caldwell

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. — Dale Carnegie

I write in a rush of memory. — Brent Runyon

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. — John Updike

This is the worst of our ways of remembering
this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism. — Kamila Shamsie

These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again. — Francesca Marciano

In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool. — M.J. Rose

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. — Iggy Pop

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. — Lawrence Durrell

In the old house, the past hung in the air like motes of dust waiting to be illuminated by the sharp rays of memory — John Connolly

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical. — Patricia Hampl

I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past. — Emma Donoghue

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. — William Maxwell

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. — Gregory Maguire

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. — George Eliot

The mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness. — F. Sionil Jose

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven — Kenneth Eade

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness. — Tzvetan Todorov

Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish. — Justin Somper

Tech, in the sense of ... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. — Mitchell Baker

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present. — Robert Galbraith

I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this. — Kate Christensen

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. — Josiah Royce

No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ... — Amitav Ghosh

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want. — Rainbow Rowell

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. — Richard Eyre

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing ... Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions. — Russell Hoban

Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them — John Stein

To cry in the memory of someone is not a problem at all rather it is a solution". — Nitin Yaduvanshi

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. — Sister Parish

I've seen all I need to. I'm going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle. — Richelle Mead

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood. — Sebastian Barry

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin

A careless word may wound the heart, And quickly it may die; Yet in the seas of memory Forever it will lie. — Fannie Isabel Sherrick

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory. — Henry David Thoreau

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon. — Dionne Warwick

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history. — Katherine Ann Porter

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish. — Steve Erickson

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes. — Orson Scott Card

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful. — Mehek Bassi

People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'. — Tom Cox

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge. — Jonathan Nolan

Every event creates a memory in the heart; photographs remind and reinforce that memory in the future, — Debasish Mridha

But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams. — Heinrich Heine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways. — Gail Carson Levine

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana