5,121 Quotes About Memories

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together…

...aren't the memories worth something? Does it all have to be swept under the rug of regret?

Memories are like the heart; you mustn’t ask too much of them. Just let them get on quietly with their schooling.

The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.

Always be thankful for the little things... even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!

Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn't know it.

I suffer from chronic nostalgia. Looking back makes me dizzy, queasy, and I yearn for it, ache for it. I want it back; maybe the homesickness will leave then.But it’s not the way I remember it. I long for a past that I didn’t have, for the same experiences with different emotions, without the pain, without the ambivalence, without the fear. My heart remembers two different lives and I long for the one I can only see now, in retrospect.

...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever coloured by the events of the summer.

Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.