5,121 Quotes About Memories

Amanda had way too much time to think being at the hospital without any friends. She didn’t want to dwell on her thoughts for too long lest the wrong ones might emerge. She was hoping to forget what happened to her.

Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it's too vivid, if you know what I mean. And when I start having thoughts like this, the more I think about it, the less I can tell how much of the vividness is real and how much of it my imagination has invented. I feel as if I've wandered into a labyrinth. Has that ever happened to you?

The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel.

Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.

Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.

Things don't always end up the way we planned but it doesn't mean the plan wasn't magical while it lasted.

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

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.

When you've had a bad experience, you sometimes feel compelled to recreate it in a way that allows you to control it.