Quotes for All
You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left … Read more
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms. Galway Kinnell
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old. Galway Kinnell
Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living. Galen Rowell
If you’ve ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don’t know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you … Read more
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. Gail Godwin
One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I’d have done even worse if they’d been on a laptop screen. Gail Collins
memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain. Gail Caldwell
Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren’t just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated. Gail Anderson-Dargatz
We won’t let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don’t just magically go … Read more