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But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,
— Monique Martin
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
— Katherine Center
We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.
— Yu Hua
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
— Umberto Eco
But the memory of past sorrowis it not present joy? — Edgar Allan Poe
A memory elbowed its way past Bishop's fear and stood defiant in the forefront of his mind. Bishop Washington never forgot a face.
— Ninie Hammon
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
— Theodor Adorno
Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
— Jamaica Kincaid
The past remains hidden in clouds of memory.
— Basho Matsuo
When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future.
— Stephen R. Covey
History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.
— T.L. Rese
In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.
— Richard Flanagan
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
— Henri Bergson
We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Is this neuro-bot really supposed to be her, this creature, this thing, compiled of the ghosts of human data, the replicas of their past?
— Bremer Acosta
The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
— Rabih Alameddine
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
— Robert Penn Warren
Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences guide us to wisdom.
— Suzy Kassem
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
— Margaret Atwood
I slipped from present to past, sliding down the snake heads of memory into what was and what would never be again.
— John Connolly
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone — Richard Puz
Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.
— Daniel Schacter
Sometimes you can't let go of the past without facing it again.
— Gail Tsukiyama
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
— Ashim Shanker
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
— Eduardo Galeano
Over the past seven years she had managed to push his memory so far back in her mind that he could've been a figment of her imagination.
— Vivian Winslow
Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable
— Peter Ackroyd
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that?
— Jeanette Winterson
Putting the past behind you isn't like stuffing something in the back of a drawer or trimming a loose thread. The past has a life of its own.
— Maggie Mitchell
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
— Wallace Stegner
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
— Marcel Proust
Memories rob us of the present.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past.
— Sharon Cameron
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.
— Indu Muralidharan
A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.
— Maurice Chevalier
Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.
— Janet Turpin Myers
The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
— Orson Scott Card
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
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
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
— Gregory Maguire
The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great!
— Meena Sarine
Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present.
— Justin Cronin
How do we know that it refers to the past? That is the real problem of memory.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.
— Deborah L. Norris
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory.
— Jesse Ball
Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.
— Kishore Bansal
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
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
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ...
— Susanne Katherina Langer
The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
— Steve Erickson
Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.
— Jaggi Vasudev
There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi
There is no judgment upon you; there is no memory of the past; there is only the understanding of this moment.
— Joel Goldsmith
They both smiled - Link at the memory of all the pie in his past, Macon at the thought of all the pie in his future.
— Kami Garcia
The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soonit would lie outside the experience of all living men. — Arthur C. Clarke
Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
— Patricia Hampl
And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind
— Jacques Roubaud
These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.
— Nathan Filer
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
— Thomas Mann
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
— Paulo Coelho
