485 quotes found
“For every inch of skin, there is memory. Devils are so made. Saints, too, if you believe in them. His humanity has been broken as an old walking stick that once held up a crippled man named Thomas....”
“It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.""Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?""I'm more...”
“She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.”
“When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.”
“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
“A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.”
“Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life.”
“Her fathers shadow looked sadly down at her. You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You wont forget your war either.”
“These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. a...”
“The days aren't discarded or collected, they are beesthat burned with sweetness or maddenedthe sting: the struggle continues,the journeys go and come between honey and pain.No, the net of years doe...”
“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,Dare not indulge in memorys rapturous pain;Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,How could I seek the empty world again?”
“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain”
“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”
“My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.”
“The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.”
“It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just bec...”
“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”
“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or ...”
“But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.”
“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”
