memory Quotes

“memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:time memory

“you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

topic:reality memory

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:beauty memory

“A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:friendship memory forgetting

“Our memories and our hearts are not large enough to remain faithful. We have not room enough, in our present mental space, to keep the dead alongside the living.”

― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

topic:memory

“But who can remember pain, once it’s 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.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

topic:pain memory

“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:education memory

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:memory

“And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:time change memory

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my...”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:memory worth

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