Memories Quotes

So I still like to see you, my friend. I still like to sit in La Côte Basque and sip wine and eat fine food and indulge in our memories—the good ones, the ones we want to remember. So let’s do that. That’s the story we can tell ourselves, at night when we can’t sleep. We can tell ourselves that there is one other person in the world who sees it in the same way, who remembers. Who remembers her. Babe. And Gloria. And even Truman, I guess, as he was, back then. Our fun, gossipy friend. Our entrée into a different world, for a time. An amusing, brief little time. A time before it was fashionable to tell the truth, and the world grew sordid from too much honesty.

~ Melanie Benjamin

I long for the days when I was One with the one who was the only one I could be One with.

~ Faith Tigere

One of our duties on this planet is to dissolve the negative emotions associated with negative memories while we motivate ourselves and other people.

~ Hina Hashmi

Things could change Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents. And everybody would have memories. You know about memories...Gabe, there could be love.

~ Lois Lowry

All my memories are poisoned.

~ George R.r. Martin

We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.

~ B.j. Novak

I'm only remembering unnecessary things because I'm alone.

~ Mika Yamamori

There are things, also, that are memories as essential and structural as bones in toes and fingers.

~ A.s. Byatt

How wonderful it must be, to be unable to remember things that once caused us distress. Yet we should embrace all our memories, whether joyful or painful. They're all we ever really own in this life.

~ Isabel Wolff

The memories of sensei I carry with me are more cruel than sensei himself.

~ Mika Yamamori

I want to make people around me happy, because I never know that laughter I gave to them would be my last gift I could offer.

~ Jimbo J. Antipolo

Only if the human mind had a Garbage Collector.But then, do we know what references we still hold on?

~ Sapan Saxena

I needed a fresh start, away from the memories that we had made for him, away from the home that didn't feel like my own anymore.Away from the people that had been ready to welcome him. Away from Honour and Ali.

~ Ruth Ahmed

when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them

~ Mauricio Sierra

The lily and the poem made it all real for me; now I knew my memories would stay with me forever. I held the lily and the poem to my heart, and concluded that my life was not a series of sand castles. There was meaning to life, and precious memories even amidst the sadness.

~ Sook Nyul Choi

We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it that I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.

~ B.j. Novak

It was so bad, it was worth more than we paid.

~ Bill Bryson

Things don't always end up the way we planned but it doesn't mean the plan wasn't magical while it lasted.

~ Kealohilani

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

~ V.e. Schwab

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They’re the real ghosts.

~ Stephen King

Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.

~ Craig Lancaster

Nothing ever happens to me, she reflected..... An older person at such an hour and in such a place might think that sufficient was happening to him, and rest content. Lucy desired more.

~ E.m. Forster

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.

~ Drew Barrymore

I have done things that are memorable to me. Some of them had brought sadness instantly to me, and others happiness. But I wished I had not made them in the first place, even more for the joyful ones. For they bring pain in me, as what have had happened there will be a memory, and will always stay as one. We can never relive those times, and that is what's haunting me, and brings pain in me...

~ Anonymous

‪Rain is not a seasonal change, it’s a feeling that brings back ‪Memories!

~ Adnan Bhatti

A pure white puppy followed on the girl’s heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.

~ Kit Alloway

You can't always keep your loved ones with you. You can't always settle your life in one place. The world was made to change. But as long as you cherish the memories and make new ones along on the way, no matter where you are, you'll always be at home.

~ Marieke Nijkamp

All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.

~ Diana Palmer

They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Memories: some can be sucker punching, others carry you forward; some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own. You can’t really know which ones you’ll survive if you don’t stay on the battlefield, bad times shooting at you like bullets. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have plenty of good times to shield you.

~ Adam Silvera

I don’t need those memories, Kai. We can make new ones. We… can start over. Just like we’ve met only yesterday.

~ Hyperionova

They have both loved you with a child’s love, and now a man’s. It is the child’s love that holds you together . . . cemented by the moments you shared with them that they treasure most.

~ A.g. Howard

City of memories, city of mirrors.

~ Justin Cronin

Your memories don't make you who you are.

~ Dan Krokos

Sometimes it’s nice to remember the little things.

~ A.d. Aliwat

Do you remember how your mom would wrap the presents so well it’d take at least five minutes to find where you could rip the paper?”I snorted. “Yes, and they were wrapped so much it was like unwrapping a hundred packages from morning ‘til lunch. It was Mom’s way of extending Christmas.”“I loved that—it always built the excitement. Just when you thought you had it, you had to unroll it. I miss her—she was like a second mother to me.

~ Shaye Evans

It's not our memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure.

~ Marie Kondō

Stories weren't just make believe, all Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose. I saw a circle: first life, then death. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Blue sky and storms and quilts of cold clouds occupy the same space but at different times. Memories and stories help you rebuild. Things most precious to you may be gone, lost to the wicked wind, but you remember what had been, and you move on.

~ Rachael Hanel

She could not bring herself to turn away from the night sky, for the stars and the blackness were the only escape she had when old faded memories returned to haunt her.

~ Narayan Liu