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Memory Quote Quotes

Quotes tagged as "memory-quote" Showing 1-30 of 198
Eric Overby
“Waves wash over her
like the edge of the sea
and the only thing she has left
are the shadows of his memory”
Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace

Adiela Akoo
“You see, long ago I built a wall,
a defense mechanism as I recall.”
Adiela Akoo, Lost in a Quatrain

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

K. Eltinaé
“I want to hold the truth between us but there's no currency for love in memories like ours. I want to hold the truth between us to survive love without running.”
K. Eltinaé, The Moral Judgement of Butterflies

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

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

Arlene Stafford-Wilson
“Our memories - those thinly veiled fragments from a time long ago, those wisps and threads of a Christmas past arrive without warning, and beckon us back to earlier years like persistent waves lapping along the shores of a familiar lake.”
Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Christmas

Deepak Kripal
“All I have is a cemetery of memory. They call it past, I find it tense.”
Deepak Kripal, Sense of a Quiet

“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

Annie Ernaux
“People are forever remembering.”
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

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