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The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. — Rebecca West

We must treasure our memories just as we cherish our dreams because without dreams and memory human life would be sad, brutal, and meaningless. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body. — Jaggi Vasudev

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive. — Rob Sheffield

In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

By having good memories on every place you just visit,
you are building paradise in your own heart and your life. — Toba Beta

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life. — Sara Sheridan

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well. — Walt Whitman

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group. — Jojo Moyes

Love happens only once, what happens after that is just compromise; with your heart and with your life ... — Mehek Bassi

The memory of his voice made her feel warm and happy, though she could not explain why — Anamika Mishra

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

Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality. — Miriam Toews

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be. — David Eagleman

And memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different. — Dana Gioia

With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is. — Melissa Hill

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

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being. — Russell Hoban

The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. — Katherine Center

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more. — Kate Mosse

He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it. — Wilkie Collins

Time takes life away
and gives us memory, gold with flame,
black with embers. — Adam Zagajewski

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Do anything totally and it is finished; you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you. — Osho

Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life. — Abbi Glines

Times slows when your life is in danger. Every second takes a minute to pass, and even the smallest event gets chiseled into memory. (95) — John Bul Dau

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory. — Myrtle Reed

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. — Albert Finney

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. — Margaret Mitchell

I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ... — John Geddes

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. — Richard Paul Evans

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. — Robert Aris Willmott

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory. — Virginia Woolf

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. — Walter Scott

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. — Gautama Buddha

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. — Dean Koontz

One minute we were a memory in the making, and in the next we were just a memory. Something to haunt me for the rest of my life. — Karina Halle

When you look back, most days in life seem ordinary, but there are some that change your life forever and remain etched in your memory. — Toffee

There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes. — Arundhati Roy

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped. — Jane Hamilton

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth. — Igor Stravinsky

Happiness is in love, in service, and in beautiful memory. — Debasish Mridha

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet. — Myrtle Reed

One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory. — Teresa R. Funke

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life. — Amelia Barr

There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory. — Horacio Quiroga

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory. — Henry David Thoreau

I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so. — George Eliot

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. — Mark Van Doren

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. — Kahlil Gibran

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. — Fish

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten. — Johnathan Jena

To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory — Jeremy Aldana

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly. — Richard Ford

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. — Tove Ditlevsen

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else. — Maeve Binchy

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel

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

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and ... well, sometimes they can't talk about them. — Alan Moore

A life is bookended by forgetting, as though memory forms the tunnel that leads into and out of a human body. — Sarah Hepola

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

Still, memory lingers. — Anonymous

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

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory. — Jose Parla

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive. — D.S. Mixell

My first memory is of light
the brightness of light
light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since — Josephine Hart

He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life. — Courtney Milan

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

Our life is just as long or short as our memory, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking. — Neel Burton

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

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life. — Edward R. Murrow

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. — James Joyce

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

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

And that's where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warm place that has no memory. — Stephen King

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love. — Catherine Lacey

A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory. — Mary Anne Radmacher

He looked into her face and tossed her sweater on the floor. I thank God you walked out of my memory and into my life. — Rachel Gibson

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory. — Emil Cioran

I watched you battle against the worst memory of your life and I watched you win. Make no mistake, Echo. I battled right beside you. — Katie McGarry

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

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life. — Paul Ricoeur

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing. — Cormac McCarthy

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory ... Powerful and profoundly moving. — William Kittredge

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. — George MacDonald

This moment will never ever come back, so create a memory and hold it tight. — Debasish Mridha

I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it. — Moises Kaufman

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Logan, with no memory of his own life was teaching me how to live in the moment and enjoy mine.
Ashlyn — Kendall Ryan

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory. — Andy Warhol

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years. — Aubrey McClendon

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. — John Boyne

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. — Miguel De Unamuno

Mistakes,' he said with effort, 'are also important to me. I don't cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them. — Andrzej Sapkowski

But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If — Catherynne M Valente

Silent is the ruined land.
Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten. — Cecil Castellucci