5,121 Quotes About Memories

Nostalgia is a bittersweet emotion; it entails the act of recalling complicated memories of bygone days.

I know you have seen things you wish you hadn't. You have done things you wish you could take back. And you wonder why you were thrown into the thick of it all - why you had to suffer the way you did. And as you are sitting there alone and hurting, I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.

Memories happened in flashes, not as drawn-out as reality, and it seemed strange that something so important, so essential to a person, could disappear so quickly.

Pavese spiegava che veniva là non per coraggio, perché lui di coraggio non ne aveva; e nemmeno per spirito di sacrificio. Veniva perché se no non avrebbe saputo come passar le serate; e non tollerava di passar le serate in solitudine.

I suppose if we forgot stuff we’ll never know we forgot it, because we won’t remember

Alberto andava dietro alle sartine; andava dietro, però, anche alle ragazze di buona famiglia. Andava dietro a tutte le ragazze, gli piacevano tutte; e siccome era allegro e gentile, corteggiava, per allegria e gentilezza, anche quelle che non gli piacevano.

There's an aristocracy in the whims of destiny.

-E o superputere bună să poți schimba amintirile, recunoaște Elsa.Bunica dă din umeri.-Dacă nu poți să scapi de alea rele, măcar să-ndeși acolo cât mai multe bune.

I couldn't find any other only place better than my soul to put my memories. I am the only one capable to fully understand and feel them, in their real meaning. Memories are made for the soul.