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I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.

~ Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy Celebration Love Of Life Memory The Time Of Your Life

I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

~ Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Emotions Memory

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

~ Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman After Death Being Remembered Memory Talent

Life is like a clock, it goes round and round, until the battery dies. Unlike clocks when humans die, they are either dead for good or they are still alive in the minds of others. To live on after death one must make a name for himself, if one fails to make a name for himself, then he will die alone, and forgotten.

~ Satuin Segi

Satuin Segi Death Memory

Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.

~ E. Lockhart

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A chair can be more valuable in memories than, say, a precious gem. A gem could have no stories to share; no lives altered or changed in the slightest. It could remain buried beneath the earth for all we know and never have any memory to embody. A chair could transcend time and generations; from the people who sat in it and onlookers. It's all about considering what stories could be told if they had voices of their own.

~ Lauren Lola

Lauren Lola Chair Gem Memory Stories Time Value

You remember it your way and I'll remember it mine.

~ Jon Chopan

Jon Chopan Memory Storytelling Truth

I began to curse the past for passing.

~ Mara Rostov

Mara Rostov Memory Past Regret

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

~ Ali Smith

Ali Smith Memory

Now when the flowers are in full bloom,It is the ashes from the past that hidden loom.

~ Selina A. Mahmood

Selina A. Mahmood Love Memory Past Spring

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

~ André Gide

André Gide Happiness Memory

Memories are as infinite as the horizon.

~ David Arnold

David Arnold Kids Of Appetite Memory

But the lost one is with you.Her tenderness strengthens you,Her gaiety uplifts you,Her honor purifies you.More than memory,The lost one is found.

~ Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine Death Life Memory

I'd seen old Yardley Slickers- the makeup now just a waxy crumble- sell for almost one hundred dollars on the internet. So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That's how badly people wanted it- to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been, still existed inside of them. There were so many things that returned me. The tang of soy, the smoke in someone's hair, the grassy hills turning blond in June. An arrangement of oaks and boulders could, seen out of the corner of my eye, crack open something in my chest, palms going suddenly slick with adrenaline.

~ Emma Cline

Emma Cline Aging Losing Oneself Memories Memory Nostalgia The Sixties Youth

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.

~ Ralph Webster

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Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next—and disappear. That’s why it’s important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.William James first wrote about the curious warping and foreshortening of psychological time in his Principles of Psychology in 1890: “In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those of a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous and long-drawn-out,” he wrote. “But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse.” Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older. “If to remember is to be human, then remembering more means being more human,” said Ed.

~ Joshua Foer

Joshua Foer Life Memory

She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven years old. She found plastic swans on strings and red crystal cardinals. She found a blue-and-white rocking horse covered in glitter. She found a porcelain Santa Claus. She found that she couldn’t figure out where the hell time had gone.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

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If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself...

~ Luigina Sgarro

Luigina Sgarro Longing Memory Nostalgia

There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she makes when she turns or slightly bends our unwieldy form. It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence. When she's no longer twenty-eight and pregnant and beautiful, or even free, she won't remember the way she set down the spoon and the sound it made on slate, the frock she wore today, the touch of her sandal's thong between her toes, the summer's warmth, the white noise of the city beyond the house walls, a short burst of birdsong by a closed window. All gone, already.

~ Ian Mcewan

Ian Mcewan Everyday Life Forgetting Memory Ordinary

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient - at others, so bewildered and so weak - and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! - We are to be sure a miracle every way - but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out.

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Memory

I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Forget Love Memory

I know what success means to me – it is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. That’s what success is to me

~ Debalina Haldar

Debalina Haldar Memory Smile Success

Is that what eternity is for, to muck over a lifetime's minutiae? Who could have imagined that one would have forever to remember each moment of life down to its tiniest component?

~ Philip Roth

Philip Roth Memory

Imagine being just strong enough to remember what life was like, feeling things, your heartbeat, the world around you. And imagine you couldn’t have it anymore, couldn’t even properly remember it, but there was just enough that some deep part of you knew what you were missing. Wouldn’t you do anything to get it back, if it was right there for the taking? Wouldn’t you be willing to kill for it?

~ Apollo Blake

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Memory is a wilful dog. It won't be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

~ Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Memory

Though Isobel could recall only a few specifics regrading the appearance of Poe's wife-a handful of vague characteristics picked up during her study with Varen, retained from the one or two glimpses she'd had for her portraits- Scrimshaw, it seemed, had forgotten nothing.

~ Kelly Creagh

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... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

~ Michael Ende

Michael Ende Experiences Meaning Of Life Memory Reason For Life

Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.

~ Don Delillo

Don Delillo Memory

There is a continuity in our lives—a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true that in the face of pain and death, we are very small. But in the face of life and memory and love, even death is very small.

~ Yael Shahar

Yael Shahar Death And Dying Eternity Hope Memory

That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next.I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

~ Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult Campbell Alexander Flashback Memory Nostalgia Reincarnation

A dictionary resembles the world more than a novel does, because the world is not a coherent sequence of actions but a constellation of things perceived. It is looked at, unrelated things congregate, and geographic proximity gives them meaning. If events follow each other, they are believed to be a story. But in a dictionary, time doesn't exist: ABC is neither more nor less chronological than BCA. To portray your life in order would be absurd: I remember you at random. My brain resurrects you through stochastic details, like picking marbles out of a bag.

~ Édouard Levé

Édouard Levé Memory

I dream for an absentee and oft maligned device—the accident-maker, the soul-taker, my camera; its factory guaranteedthird eye, without which I am duly dimand memory denied. No picturesfor my contrived Arbus to declare, excepting some stitch of Sextonmanages these sentences of despair.

~ Kristen Henderson

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I go, but I always remember you.

~ Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Good Byes Journey Love Memory

If you knew you were going to lose your memorybut you could choose five things you’d never forget, what would they be—a certain face, a taste, a scent,a touch; how deepin this, the middle of your life?

~ Kristen Henderson

Kristen Henderson Alzheimers Dimentia Memory Precious Remember Remembering Time

You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time.

~ Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes Memory

Lacking natural equilibrium, I used writing as an illustrative means to center myself in a world filled with haziness and uncertainty. My self-drafted obituary will not bemoan death but shall celebrate life by giving heartfelt thanks for all the people that brightened actuality with their kindness, friendship, noble acts of charity, and expressions of universal goodwill. It was a privilege to exist in this wrinkle of time with many people devoted to burnishing the sharpen edges of life. The heavens blessed me with many years to discover why it is beautiful to live and die in a world where the hills and wind, the rivers and seas, stars and moon, and revealing sunlight shall persevere.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Somehow your heart still knows me.

~ T.k. Naliaka

T.k. Naliaka Action Adventure Adventure Romance Fiction Novel Love Memory

I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is the source of great beauty in our lives, yet the cause of such heartache. It remains the bridge between our past and present - it gives weight and dimension to our very existence.

~ Lang Leav

Lang Leav Memory

Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.

~ Ivan Turgenev

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