5,121 Quotes About Memories

Deep inside, all of us have philosophical and poetic notions, which we keep trying to express, but are unable to do so.

Ruby used to say that we'd earned our memories, but we didn't owe them anything beyond their keeping. I guess she'd know better than most. We were moving forward, and the past was best left to its darkness. Its ashes.

إنّ من بين الذّكريات الّتي يختزنها كلّ منّا، ذكريات لا نرويها إلّا لأصدقائنا، ومن بينها ذكريات أخرى لا نعترف بها حتى لأصدقائنا، ولا نردّدها إلّا على أنفسنا، بل ولا نردّدها على أنفسنا إلّا سرّا. وكلّ إنسان شريف أمين قد اختزن أثناء حياته قدرا كافيا من هذه الذّكريات، حتى ليمكنني أن أقول إنّ عدد هذه الذّكريات يكون على قدر ما يتّصف به الإنسان من الشّرف والأمانة.

What if memories were just memories, without any consolatory or persecutory power? Would they exist at all, or was it always emotional pressure that summoned images from what was potentially all of experience so far?

The mind is like an object that picks up dust. The object doesn’t know, any more than the mind does, why what clings to it clings.

In time,everyone fades away,transfiguring into echoes that latchonto our memoriesand bleed our hearts dry.

Holmes speaks of grief “staining backward” through the pages of life; but Valancy found her happiness had stained backward likewise and flooded with rose-colour her whole previous drab existence. She found it hard to believe that she had ever been lonely and unhappy and afraid.

I can feel it, Annie whispered.The air is heavy with ghosts.The birds sing only sad songs.The ground swallowed many tears.

I Sometimes Touch my woundsAnd damnThey still hurt me the most