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Quotes About Memory

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.
~ Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.
~ David Marusek, Mind Over Ship
Remembering the good has also resurrected the bad.
~ Siobhan Davis, Destiny Rising
In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.
~ S.E. Harmon, Stay with Me
There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.
~ Nizar Qabbani
The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn't there, who just popped on your mind.
~ Ahlam Mosteghanemi
I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.
~ Richard Marx
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
~ Bertrand Russell
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
~ John Henry Newman
A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
~ Don McLean
Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.
~ James Frey
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
~ Virginia Woolf
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
~ Junot Diaz
Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
~ Mason Cooley
He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
~ Edward Young
Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.
~ Emile M. Cioran
This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad's SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window." The memory brought a smile to my face.
~ Darynda Jones
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?
~ Jerry Spinelli
She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.
~ A.S. King, Ask the Passengers
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
~ Angela Davis
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
~ Zora Neale Hurston