53 Memories Quotes

Memories have a unique way of shaping our lives, capturing moments of joy, sorrow, laughter, and growth. They serve as a chronicle of our personal journey, reflecting the experiences that have molded us into who we are today. Whether it's a cherished childhood memory, a milestone achievement, or a poignant reminder of someone we hold dear, these moments stay with us, offering comfort and a sense of continuity. In this blog post, we've curated a collection of the top 53 memories quotes to celebrate the beauty and significance of these fragments of time. Let these quotes inspire you to reflect on your own memories and the stories they tell.

1. “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” - Saul Bellow

2. “The voices may propel you to warble along, or to dance, they may inspire you to seduction or insurrection or inspection or merely to watching a little less television. The voices of Barrett Rude Jr. and the Subtle Distinctions lead nowhere, though, if not back to your own neighborhood. To the street where you live. To things you left behind.And that's what you need, what you needed all along.” - Jonathan Lethem

3. “The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.” - Vera Nazarian

4. “These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.” - Ian McEwan

5. “Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone.” - William Shakespeare

6. “If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.” - Kristin Cashore

7. “All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.” - Philippe Forest

8. “When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending. I feel the warmth and texture and simultaneously I see the flesh unwrap from the layers of fat and disappear. I see the fat disappear from the muscle. I see the muscle disappearing from around the organs and detaching iself from the bones. I see the organs gradually fade into transparency leaving a gleaming skeleton gleaming like ivory that slowly resolves until it becomes dust. I am consumed in the sense of your weight, the way your flesh occupies momentary space the fullness of it beneath my palms. I am amazed at how perfectly your body fits to the curves of my hands. If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would. If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would. If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin and look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours I would. It makes me weep to feel the history of your flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss. It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you twist and turn over to one side to create a series of gestures to reach up around my neck to draw me nearer. All these memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain.” - David Wojnarowicz

9. “There were some memories, though, that never faded.” - Cassandra Clare

10. “I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” - Sophia Loren

11. “Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But I count you blessed [...] for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory of Lothlórien shall remain ever clear and unstained in your heart, and shall neither fade nor grow stale.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

12. “So, we skipped Annabel, and discussed condoms. I said I liked the orange ones, and we ended our talk in laughter.” - Steven Herrick

13. “Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” - Willa Cather

14. “But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.” - Dalene Matthee

15. “Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ” - Arthur Golden

16. “She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.” - Jennifer E. Smith

17. “...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honour heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honour the Pharaohs. Only instead of being made out of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. That's why your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of with stone.” - R.J. Palacio

18. “Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they're like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.” - Kristin Hannah

19. “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” - Shannon L. Alder

20. “We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.” - Mira Bartok

21. “Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die? Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try! No more memories, no more silent tears, no more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.” - Charles Hart

22. “Die Vergangenheit war wie jene altmodischen, mit Kräutern und Blumen gefüllten Duftkissen, deren Aroma die Kleider durchdringt und an ihnen haften bleibt.” - Anais Nin

23. “The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.” - Milan Kundera

24. “If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.” - Héloïse d'Argenteuil

25. “When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.” - Solange nicole

26. “How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.” - Henry Rollins

27. “They're all true. They all could have happened.” - Ellen Sussman

28. “The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them” - Charles Dickens

29. “How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just—change. With nothing causing it.” - Philip K. Dick

30. “Who are we without our memories?” - Marta Acosta

31. “To remember is to disengage from the present.” - Garth Stein

32. “...every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?...” - John Geddes

33. “I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed.” - Albert Camus

34. “The man went to the controls, looking up at me, flaring his nostrils to my actions. His voice was like a voice under water. “We’ll see what becomes of your rebellious nature when you lose your memories, Rei Lin.” He punched a few buttons and turned the knob on the wall to the right.” - Millicent Ashby

35. “I walked in the dark forest at night...I couldn't see much further in the dark ,I heard the sound of the past, ..Memories Went back clear to me and Fear started hunting me, ..No Way To Escape , No Way To Stand Still...” - Hamza wolf

36. “No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” - Haruki Murakami

37. “Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.” - Shannon L. Alder

38. “I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For a second I thought I could see pictures in them, like I was looking right inside her to where her memories were. She smiled, and I wondered if she knew what I'd seen or if she could see the pictures I kept hidden inside myself.” - Glenda Millard

39. “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

40. “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

41. “When he opens the door, I step in and an army of memories comes at me from all sides.” - Lisa Schroeder

42. “Sometimes, at the least opportune times, the past is an insomniac, alive and well.” - Courtney Cole

43. “For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to denote what we saw, we had to make up our own. That was why we spoke of "yodeling in the canyon" and "tying the tube," of "groaning in the pit," "slipping the turtle's head," and "chewing the stinkweed." Years later, when we lost our own virginities, we resorted in our panic to pantomiming Lux's gyrations on the roof so long ago; and even now, if we were to be honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that it is always that pale wraith we make love to, always her feet snagged in the gutter, always her single blooming hand steadying itself against the chimney, no matter what our present lovers' feet and hands are doing.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

44. “When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.” - Dezső Kosztolányi

45. “...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment...” - John Geddes

46. “Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.” - Rohinton Mistry

47. “When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.” - Katherine Paterson

48. “Memories are reality's ghosts” - BJ Neblett

49. “Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already scattered; as a broken link, a biological dead end, an eternal withdrawal from reality, a once complex object that now dwindled, dwindled, left nothing behind except a l like a fallen speck of soot on a blank sheet of paper.” - John Fowles

50. “Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me.” - Ida Løkås

51. “Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.” - John Green

52. “In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.” - Donna Lynn Hope

53. “He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall.” - Lauren Groff