5,121 Quotes About Memories

I got antsy, thinking about my past.

A child’s earliest memories derive from pain, pleasure, or bewilderment.

So much of our life is buried in the past, the good times we fondly remember. The longer I stay there, the cozier it gets. And rarely do I want to leave a place that feels like home.

Did places harbor memories? I often thought they did, recollections both good and bad somehow absorbed by the walls.

I color my nails blackand dye my hair redto wear, in metaphors,what my heart wants.The things I don‘t wish to remember,leaking from the tips of my fingers.The things I wish I won‘t forget,clinging to the roots of my hair.

Ageing is the growing chasm between the familiarity of memories and their fading distance in time. Old age is when the past is so far back it appears more surreal than a life lived. Death is when the individual relinquishes their tenuous grip on their life history.

My story will be over soon. But it's not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.

...because there's nothing better than the memories of others when you're little and have no stories of your own.

Every sunset is a journey, a journey to remember the memories of the past!