Quotations Say It Better

Memory

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“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

― Lois Lowry, The Giver

 

F“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

 

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

 

“Humans, not places, make memories.”

― Ama Ata Aidoo

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. - Bob Dylan

Take care of your memories, for you cannot relive them.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. - Jeremy Irons

 

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Rosa Parks

 

Wherever you go, your memories from the place you grew up in always remain special. Guru Randhawa

 

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. Stevie Wonder

 

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

― Mark Twain

 

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”

― Steven Wright

 

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

― Guy de Maupassant

 

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

 

“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”

― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

 

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

 

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”

― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

 

 

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

 

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

― Mark Twain

 

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

― Thomas Campbell

 

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

― Marcel Proust

 

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

― J.M. Barrie

 

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”

― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

 

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

 

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive." ― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

 

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”

― Dante

 

 

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”

― Octavia Butler

 

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”

― Aldous Huxley

 

“The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.”

― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

 

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past.”

― Oscar Wilde