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Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory
— Paulo Coelho
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
— Barbara Kingsolver
His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return,
— George Orwell
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
— Albert Einstein
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
— Anthony Hecht
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss.
— Laird Barron
I don't like perfect people. They're usually not.
— James L. Rubart
What is a man but another man's memory
— Addison Killebrew
There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.
— David Levithan
It's a small reminder, but it lingers, and the more I try to ignore the memory, it multiplies into a monster that can no longer be contained.
— Tahereh Mafi
The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot.
— Soseki Natsume
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
— Pat Conroy
... That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. ...
— Catherynne M Valente
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
— Henry Anatole Grunwald
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 think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
— Gregory Crewdson
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.
— Cheryl Strayed
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.
— Jean Shepherd
I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.
— Ruthie Henshall
These experiences were not lodged in Maxon's memory. They were not allowed to stay there.
— Lydia Netzer
Mom isn't content taking a stroll down memory lane. She's bought a condo and spends half the year there.
— Paula Wall
As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character.
— Robin Hobb
I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory.
— Calia Read
Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.
— Eduardo Mallea
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.
— Paula Fox
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
It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory
— Christopher Hitchens
It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.
— Marjorie Garber
At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.
— Stephen King
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
Rome is everybody's memory ...
— Eleanor Clark
I scrub the memory from my mind. There is no past. There is no future. Love, if that's what it is, is as short as it is eternal.
— Chloe Thurlow
It's like a memory in stereo." Sandy
— James J. Murray
A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.
— V.S. Naipaul
How far back does one's memory of someone go?
— Kyung-Sook Shin
It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.
— Joaquin Lowe
Depend upon it, her mother's voice said sternly in her memory, no prudent man will ever accept a wife who knows more than himself.
— Eloisa James
Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.
— Virginia Vayna
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
— Gustave Flaubert
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.
— Oliver Sacks
The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have.
— Mindscape
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
— Amitav Ghosh
He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.
— Rebecca McNutt
The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.
— Laini Taylor
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.
— Terry Pratchett
And that's where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warm place that has no memory.
— Stephen King
Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.
— Shannon Hale
But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising.
— Emily Dickinson
A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory ... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream ... i want to line the pieces up ... yours and mine.
— Shiro Amano
Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby's smile.
— Debasish Mridha
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
— Aubrey De Vere
April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot
Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory.
— Rita Zahara
Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.
— John Steinbeck
Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
— David Wenham
I know you don't have access to that memory yet, but I don't think it's something I can just tell you. It means too much to me, I guess.
— Courtney Allison Moulton
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
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
I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.
— Lina Rehal
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
An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.
— Anthony Jeselnik
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
One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.
— Angela Lam Turpin
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
— C.S. Lewis
Each man's memory is his own private literature
— Aldous Huxley
Love, you are the dark cut into memory.
Small, distant, as the sparrow's eye. — Brenda Sieczkowski
Small, distant, as the sparrow's eye. — Brenda Sieczkowski
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
— James A. Garfield
The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.
— Kevin Rahm
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
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
— Larry Wall
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
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
— William Least Heat-Moon