#memory quotes

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

These things that were between us, these and a myriad others, a myriad myriad, these remain of her, but what will become of them when I am gone, I who am their repository and sole preserver?

John Banville, Ancient Light

[magicalquote]

Harry Vanderspeigle: Memory is cruel. Humans are annoying, but when you believe you will never see them again, you begin to remember only the good things.

[bhloomest]

[gennsoup]

"Every day you try to forget, but at night, you dream of the past. This is what dreams are for. To make us remember what we were, to tie us down to our memories, whether we like it or not."

Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

[notebookofquotes]

...no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Terry Pratchett

[theliveswithinphotos]

“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” - Kurt Vonnegut

(by theliveswithinphotos)

[crymeariveronceagain]

How can you control memory? You have not controlled mine!

--- 1984, by George Orwell

[thanatophobia-thoughts]

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

Alan Bennett