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Quotes About Memory

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
~ Pablo Neruda
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
~ Robert Browning
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
~ Adolfo Bioy Casares
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.
~ Angela Bassett
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
~ Anita Brookner
My uncle used to love me, but she died.
~ Roger Miller
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
~ Theodor Adorno
I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
~ William Wordsworth
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
~ Joan Didion
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
~ John Dryden
I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.
~ Nicki Minaj
When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.
~ Catherine O'Hara
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
~ Sophocles, Antigone
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
~ Andrei Codrescu
First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.
~ Branislav Nusic
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
~ Roger Ebert
PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Once more you open the door and you're here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on.
~ Will Jennings
I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.
~ Caroline Kennedy
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
~ E. M. Forster
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
~ Frederick William Thomas