Memories Quotes
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But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
Margaret Mitchell -
Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.
Elizabeth Bear
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What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.
Haruki Murakami -
It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.
Sharon Draper -
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami -
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
Paul Gauguin -
To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.
Joshua Foer -
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
Terence McKenna
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You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.
Coco J. Ginger -
That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
Haruki Murakami -
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Haruki Murakami -
I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.
Carl De Keyzer -
She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
Tony Blair -
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.
Sufjan Stevens
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I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.
Cecelia Ahern -
I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.
Evelyn Glennie -
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
Haruki Murakami -
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Joshua Foer -
We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.
Studs Terkel -
It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.
Sofia Coppola
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I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
Spalding Gray -
To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
Stephen Covey -
I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.
Ricky Schroder -
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
Joshua Foer