48 Memorable Quotes To Cherish

In an age where words are easily forgotten, memorable quotes stand out as powerful nuggets of wisdom, offering insight, inspiration, and reflection. They capture emotions, frame our experiences, and challenge our perspectives, making them treasures worth cherishing. Whether you're looking for motivation, comfort, or a new way of seeing the world, this curated collection of 48 memorable quotes provides a diverse array of thoughts from profound thinkers, celebrated leaders, and timeless literary figures. Join us as we explore these impactful words that resonate through time, offering a moment of pause in our fast-paced lives.

1. “We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.” - Ray Bradbury

2. “Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!” - Lewis Carroll

3. “Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.” - Janet Fitch

4. “I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. ” - Leo Tolstoy

5. “In this life, when you deny someone an apology,you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.” - Toba Beta

6. “If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?” - Jodi Picoult

7. “In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.” - Ai Yazawa

8. “In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with loveAnd there may be many things we forget in the days to come,But this will not be one of them.” - Brian Andreas

9. “I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.” - Mitch Albom

10. “Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you not to. Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring. Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.” - Alysha Speer

11. “Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.” - Gregory Maguire

12. “But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.” - George Washington

13. “The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.” - Vera Nazarian

14. “Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred?” - Jeffrey McDaniel

15. “i want to remember” - Maggie Stiefvater

16. “What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.” - Cormac McCarthy

17. “No longer mourn for me when I am deadthan you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone.” - Shakespeare

18. “Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased.She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy.The Empire Strikes Back," Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line.The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That's not romantic!" Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls.Au contraire, my dear, it's very romantic. The last scene, you know, when they're about to put Han in that freezing cryogenic chamber or whatever? Remember?"Schuyler mmm-hmmmed.And Leia leans over the ledge and says, 'I love you.'"That's cheesy, not romatic," Schuyler argued, although she did like that part.Let me explain. What's romantic is what Han says back. Remember what he says to her? After she says 'I love you'?"Schuyler grinned. Maybe Oliver had a point. "Han says, 'I know.'"Exactly," Oliver tapped the wheel. "He doesn't have to say anything so trite as 'I love you." Because that's already understood. And that's romantic.” - Melissa de la Cruz

19. “Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.” - Ann Druyan

20. “Do you ever go back?"Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.” - Jodi Picoult

21. “Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?” - Jodi Picoult

22. “People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.” - Meg Wolitzer

23. “We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.” - S.J. Watson

24. “Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.” - John Green

25. “Because the part of me that remembers what it was like all those lifetimes ago still cares for you .. loves you.” - Stacey Jay

26. “Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seatin this distracted globe. Remember thee?” - William Shakespeare

27. “My mouth opened.It happened.Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling.Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices surrounded me. The sky listened. The city didn't. I didn't care. All I cared about was that I was howling so that I could hear my voice and so I would remember that the boy had intensity and something to offer. I howled, oh, so loud and desperate, telling a world that I was here and I wouldn't lie down.” - Markus Zusak

28. “I think that's what we all want, in the end.To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.We want to be remembered.So remember us.Please.Remember us.” - Mike A. Lancaster

29. “I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to make me see that between my mother'sPTA and Boo's strange ways there was a middle ground that began here with my Barbie, Sab-rina,and led right to me."She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.” - Sarah Dessen

30. “The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.” - John Green

31. “It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.” - Markus Zusak

32. “Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco” - Katherine Applegate

33. “My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.” - Steven Herrick

34. “Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring thoughtfully up into the aether, twirling the deadly parasol about her head."I have just remembered something," Alexia said when he returned to her side."Oh, that explains everything. How foolish of me to think you could walk and remember at the same time.” - Gail Carriger

35. “So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him.” - Ally Condie

36. “Things it helps me to rememberWhen in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.Baggy jumpers don’t suit you.When you’re tired you get doubtful.Difficulties come in spurts.Listen to the echo of your own voice. Avoid be strident.All aeroplanes go through clouds during their journeys. So do people during theirs.Often greater clarity comes out of confusion. You have to be puzzled before you find a solution.PMS often brings on a crisis of confidence.Ordinariness is restful.If someone is explosive in front of you, be silent. If you feel explosive, be silent.” - Aidan Chambers

37. “The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.” - Rob Montgomery

38. “I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.” - Glenda Millard

39. “We stood, holding each other's faces, memorising every last detail. I was deperate with my own need to capture this last, lingering moment, desperate to forget the horrible sink at the pit of my stomach telling me all this would be lost forever once they pulled the chip out. Please don't let me forget.” - Heather Anastasiu

40. “You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.” - Geoff Ryman

41. “Sometimes those experiences crowd back upon the memory, and the past flashes back like a distant peak momentarily lighted up by sunbeam piercing through the clouds. Then oblivion again. Strange it is how the prosaic present may hide the exciting past.” - Whipplesnaith

42. “There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.” - Katie McGarry

43. “To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.” - Marita Golden

44. “Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone forever.” - Isaac Marion

45. “Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being.” - Tahereh Mafi

46. “In the distant future, I don’t want to be remembered; I want to remember!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

47. “In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.” - Patrick Carman

48. “That thing, that tiny part of The Land of Elyon, is gone but not entirely forgotten. Elyon had his reason for sending you and me on this journey. Sometimes we see something as plain as a dying leaf and our hearts grow sad, but we must always hold true and fight on, Alexa. Whatever happens to us, we will not be forgotten in the end. He will remember us.” - Patrick Carman