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Quotes About Memory

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life
~ Armistead Maupin
When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
~ Artie Lange
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
~ Brian Andreas
We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.
~ Julius Lester
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
~ Mos Def
I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.
~ Richard Ford
Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
~ William Shakespeare
The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!
~ Rupert Friend
Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.
~ Ruta Sepetys
If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.
~ Steve Martin
I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
~ Teju Cole
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
~ Umberto Eco
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
~ Mark Doty
She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
~ Ann Brashares
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.
~ Candace Bushnell
Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.
~ Robert Holdstock
Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.
~ Rudy Wiebe
I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.
~ Sarah McLachlan
They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes. They lied. The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon