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Memory Quote Quotes

Quotes tagged as "memory-quote" Showing 1-30 of 202
Adiela Akoo
“You see, long ago I built a wall,
a defense mechanism as I recall.”
Adiela Akoo, Lost in a Quatrain

Yōko Ogawa
“Even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.�

- R”
Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Scientific experiences and practices can easily lead to spirituality, rather than trying to memorize more facts.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo

Annie Ernaux
“People are forever remembering.”
Annie Ernaux, Shame

Yōko Ogawa
“And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.�

- R”
Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“A good memory tempts us to live in the past.”
Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Memory revises, reorders, refigures, resignifies; it includes or omits, embellishes or represses, decorates or drops, according to imperatives of its own. Far from being a trustworthy transcriber of "reality," it is a shaper and shape shifter that takes liberties with the past as artful and lying as any taken by the creative writer.”
Gayle Greene

“Every cell in our body gets renewed, replaced. The same ought to be true of memories.”
Camilla Lackberg, The Golden Cage

Annie Ernaux
“We have no true memory of ourselves.”
Annie Ernaux, Shame

Steven Redhead
“While you can't change what happened, you can change your perception or memory of what occurred.”
Steven Redhead, Life’s Events In Focus

Kapka Kassabova
“Everything happens twice. Once as life itself, and twice as memory � or forgetting.”
Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

Charles Bukowski
“my mother’s breath stirs small leaves
in my mind;”
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Kaylee Stepkoski
“If I blink, I fear it may all disappear. So I live to remember.”
Kaylee Stepkoski

Marjory Qwen
“Let the memory of the old me wither away like a fading blossom, for it has reached its seasons's end.”
Marjory Qwen, Echoes of a Silent Heart: A Poetry Collection

Ellis Peters
“Brother Reece ... had the capacious if capricious memory of the very old”
Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

Ted van Lieshout
“Ik probeerde me te herinneren hoe je stem klonk en ik kon hem nergens vinden in m'n hoofd. Foetsie. Weg. Verdwenen. Ik was haast in paniek, want ik had je stem zo graag onthouden.”
Ted van Lieshout, Gebr.

Mehmet Murat ildan
“The trace you leave in the snow may last for 1 or 3 days and then disappear; but the same trace can live in memory for years! Wouldn't it be right to say that memory is a more solid reality than reality?”
Mehmet Murat ildan

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