M Quotes
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“Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.”
Source: Wild Dogs
“Memory is a cemetery
I’ve visited once or twice”
“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
“Memory is a cool companion.”
“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.”
Source: Keystones Of Thought
“Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.”
“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego”
“Memory is a dog that wants to please its master.”
Source: Gabriel's Moon
“Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.”
Source: The Illustrated West with the Night
“Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.”
Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
“Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.”
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene I hardly paid it any attention. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit of information that might make sense of something else, it taps you on the head and says, "Remember when you told me to put that memory in the green rubbish bin? Well, I didn't, I put it in the black recycling tub, and it's coming your way again.”
“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”
Source: Aspects of Biography
“Memory is a great betrayer.”
“Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.”
“Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Memory is a kind
of accomplishment,
a sort of renewal
even
an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places
inhabited by hordes
heretofore unrealized,
of new kinds―
since their movements
are towards new objectives
(even though formerly they were abandoned).”
“Memory is a kind of cartography. We redraw ourselves every time we look back.”
Source: The Cartographer’s Curse: Book I of The Leyline Cycle
“Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.”
Source: The life I really lived: a novel
“Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.”
“Memory is a myth-making machine, and we’re constantly reinventing our past, especially as we tell the stories over and over again.”
“Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.”
“Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.”
“Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle”
“Memory is a patient sculptor. It chisels away the rough edges and refines the scenes you carry. A childhood street that once felt endless becomes shorter in recollection, but more idyllic. ... The mind softens the harshness and highlights the tenderness. It leaves you with impressions more than exact details: the smell of jasmine in the evening, the sound of rain on an old roof, the feeling of safety in a friend’s kitchen.”
“Memory is a poet, not an historian.”
“Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.”
Source: Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War
“Memory is a queer creature, an eccentric curator.”
Source: An American Marriage
“Memory is a river. Memory is a pebble at the bottom of the river, slippery with the moss of our living hours. Memory is a tributary, a brackish stream returning to the oceam that dreamt it. Memory is the sea. Memory is the house on the sand with a red door I have stepped through, trying to remember the history of the waves.”
Source: How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
“Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.”
“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
Source: The Storyteller: A Novel
“Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.”
“memory is a storm I can't repel.”
“Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Memory is a strange combination of those things we work to remember and the things we can never forget”
Source: Three Strikes, You're Dead
“Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.”
“Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.”
Source: Impulse
“Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are vague and yesterday seems to come tied up in ribbons of pain. Happiness? I look for it intead in today, where memory is something I can still touch, still rely on. I find it in the smiles of new friends, the hope blossoming inside. My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.”
“Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.”
“Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.”
Source: Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
“Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.”
“Memory is all I have now”
Source: First love
“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”
Source: King of Thorns
“Memory is all we really have. All we are. Without memories to give us a context for what’s happening around us, anything could be happening.", Falling (FADE Book 2) by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fade