Memory Quotes
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“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
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“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don鈥檛 go along with that. The memories I value most, I don鈥檛 ever see them fading.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
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“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that鈥檚 gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
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“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you鈥檙e just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there鈥檚 not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― Call Me by Your Name
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you鈥檙e just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there鈥檚 not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― Call Me by Your Name

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― City of Heavenly Fire
― City of Heavenly Fire

“But who can remember pain, once it鈥檚 over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale
― The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
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“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Ignorance
― Ignorance

“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Matched
― Matched

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale
― The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God
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