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All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things. — Benjamin Brindise

Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory — Paulo Coelho

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly. — Nikos Kazantzakis

And what is memory but a rope slung across time? — Jeanette Winterson

Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint. — Keith Donohue

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them. — W.G. Sebald

We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date. — Yu Hua

Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain. — Tan Twan Eng

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

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic. — Guy Delisle

Marcellus cudgeled his memory. What did he know about Arpino? Delicious little melons! Arpino melons! And exactly the right time for them, too. — Lloyd C. Douglas

An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return. — Marianne Williamson

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

And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago. — Lawren Leo

Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar.
We have been here before.
Also we have never been here before. — E. Lockhart

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. — John Dewey

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt

Selective memory is one of the chief sins of the old, and I don't have time for it. — Stephen King

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant. — Sally Mann

The warm solid definitive realness of him. For the first time in many long years she felt her heart open, and knew love as more than a memory. — Cassandra Clare

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory ... let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it. — Betty Smith

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

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

But isn't that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina of self-serving omissions. — Jason Mott

Each day is a gift. Treasure it and remember it for what it is. There may come a time when that memory is all you have. — Bette Lee Crosby

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning. — Tony Buzan

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new. — Marilynne Robinson

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it. — James Stephens

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time,
and the places we keep them get weaker with age. — Michael Xavier

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do. — Lou Reed

I have a hard time telling the difference between an old memory and a recent one. — Jennifer Rush

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

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. — James Russell Lowell

The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent. — Jose Saramago

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. — Leo Dworken

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure. — Natasha Trethewey

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory. — Bob Kane

Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness. — Tom Robbins

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

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it. — Clive Cussler

Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time. — Michio Kushi

Useless to tell myself that a dream
and the memory of yesterday are the same thing — BORGES JORGE LUIS

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise. — Betty White

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again. — Johnny Rich

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory. — Keith Carter

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed. — Umberto Eco

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception. — Ashim Shanker

Imagine every moment being at one and the same time a distant memory and a nasty surprise and you'll see what I mean. — Terry Pratchett

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. — Elizabeth I

Neither memory nor anticipation is much interested in Father Time, and all dreamers, artists and lovers are partially delivered from his tyranny; — E. M. Forster

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms. — Susan Griffin

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

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more. — James Thurber

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. — Will Durant

Hunger that comes and goes turns time into memory. — Jane Hirshfield

It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right. — Scott Cawthon

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

One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive. — Audrey Niffenegger

I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me. — Marcel Proust

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;
I remember all you forget.
I will die as many times
as you make me over again. — Carl Sandburg

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

Every time we remind ourselves to focus on Love, our strength, abilities, and deep memory of it will increase. — Kelly Corbet

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us. — Sam Tanenhaus

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

Another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time. — Mitch Albom

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. — John Banville

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. — Donald Hall

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity. — Andrea Camilleri

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. — Paulo Coelho

Over time, stress hormones from multitasking can damage memory centers in the brain. Focus on one task at a time for better efficiency and memory. — Peter Lawrence

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true. — Carl De Keyzer

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time. — George MacDonald Fraser

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem. — Kurt Cobain

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory. — Anne Perry

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. — Madame De Stael

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive. — Juliet Marillier

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments. — Anne Michaels

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. — Rollo May

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. — Richard Dawkins