Tom Rachman Quotes

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Tom Rachman

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• If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Memories
  • Movies
  • Dreams

• I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Memories
  • Clothes
  • Sentimentalist

• The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Memories

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Memories
  • Revolution

• Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Memories

• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Funny
  • Best
  • Memories

• I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Memories
  • Scared
  • Racing

• What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Memories
  • Painful
  • Slightly

• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that in-forms the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • House
  • Reality
  • Hurt

• Ooo there's a thin line between dreams and memoriesI'll be losin' my mind 'til she comes back to me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Mind
  • Memories
  • Dreams

• The houses in Mustique are styled with incredible decor. I vacationed there as a kid and have the fondest memories.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Memories

• My dad leaving my life. That's the biggest thing that happened to me. I just remember what he tells me, the memories, and try to move on forward each day, knowing that he's still here, looking down on me.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dad

• I've been lucky to be a part of many blockbuster movies... in which it's hard to get to that level of being memorable, but I still have fond memories of 'Independence Day,' to be sure. There are also many small ones I've had that give me many fond memories.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Small
  • Memories

• To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

  

  Ricky Nelson
  • Friends
  • Memories

• He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • World
  • Long
  • Heart

• All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Memories

• Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Dark
  • Memories
  • Feet

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from ‘the wise man’s mouth’ but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Truth
  • Wise
  • Lies

• If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Home

• I don't believe in trying to be somebody you're not - just be a bigger, better version of yourself.

  

  Neon Hitch
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

  

  Tom Rachman
  • Memories