Quotes About Persistence Of Memory

#1. Crow shrugged. "What is death? The loss of a body? The loss of the animating spark? If that's the case, I am dead.
"Or is life the persistence of memory and emotion, volition and desire?" Crow went on, as if in a debate with himself. "If that's the case, I am very much alive.

Cinda Williams Chima

#2. The past wasn't dead, nor past. She herself was black, and was explaining the demographic of the Black Belt today by referring to slavery, still a visitable memory because of the persistence of its effects.

Paul Theroux

#3. No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

Elizabeth Berkley

#4. There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

Steven Erikson

#5. It will always be the ultimate, because you're my ultimate.

Erin McCarthy

#6. It would annoy me to be killed by someone who doesn't especially hate me as an individual, or who I didn't personally betray.

Steve Toltz

#7. Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse
you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse
you're letting go of
me
you're letting go

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read.

Donna Lynn Hope