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Memory Quotes

"My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well."

"My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well."

Zack Love, American Author

Memory, Past, Healing, Emotion

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"I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories."

"I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Memory, Home, Nature, Time

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"I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams."

"I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Memory, Travel, Home, Nostalgia

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"I miss those days even though I wasn't alive."

"I miss those days even though I wasn't alive."

Sherry Turkle, American Author

Memory, Nostalgia, Time, Past

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"While we are floating against the current toward the future, our minds stay behind with the anchoring memories of the past."

"While we are floating against the current toward the future, our minds stay behind with the anchoring memories of the past."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Memory, Floating, Current, Future, Memories

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"There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day."

"There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day."

Kris Kidd, American Writer

Memory, Childhood, Sadness, Emotion

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"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."

"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Memory, Childhood, Power, Friendship

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"I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people."

"I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people."

Willa Cather, American Author

Memory, Happiness, Past, Reflection

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"The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the rustling trees. 'You know,' whispered Tom, 'what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years."

"The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the slate roof of Dodd and blue the rustling trees. 'You know,' whispered Tom, 'what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Memory, Youth, History, Emotion

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"Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."

"Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Memory, Past, Reality, Perception

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"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."

"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."

Mark Twain, American Author

Memory, Childhood, Music, Grief

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"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Memory, Darkness, Stars, Presence

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"Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me."

"Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Memory, Love, Life, Hope

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"Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past."

"Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past."

Gillian Flynn, American Author

Memory, Change, Past, Relationship

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"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."

"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Memory, Joy, Life, Past

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"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."

"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Memory, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

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"That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad."

"That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad."

Louise Penny, Canadian Author

Memory, Betrayal, Love, Pain

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"Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there."

"Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Memory, Dream, Past, Present

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"Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No homework to do, just a Sunday when you could do what you wanted. She always gave me this kick-back-and-relax, Sunday-morning kind of feeling."

"Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No homework to do, just a Sunday when you could do what you wanted. She always gave me this kick-back-and-relax, Sunday-morning kind of feeling."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Memory, Relaxation, Happiness, Peace

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"She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness."

"She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness."

Jennifer Donnelly, American Author

Memory, Family, Home, Love

8

"In my brain were stored a thousand pictures."

"In my brain were stored a thousand pictures."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Memory, Life, Thought, Imagination

8

"Filled her memory bank with shiny coins."

"Filled her memory bank with shiny coins."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

Memory, Truth, Observation, Power

8

"Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself."

"Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Memory, Wonder, Forgetfulness, Time

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"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."

"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Memory, Childhood, Idea, Influence

7

"I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back."

"I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back."

Lois McMaster Bujold, American Writer

Memory, Loss, Change, Acceptance

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"As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass."

"As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass."

Willa Cather, American Author

Memory, Love, Youth, Past

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"The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too."

"The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Memory, Truth, Reality, Time

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"I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."

"I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Memory, Love, Emotion, Truth

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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Memory, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

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