5,121 Quotes About Memories

[Clutter] brings up bad memories. There are little emotional grenades in all of your piles, and every time you sort through one, you uncover something you "should have" done.

Memories make us both live and kill: They keep us alive because the beauty of the past is still with us in another form! They kill us, because we suffer from the agony of being condemned to live the beautiful past not physically, but only virtually anymore!

Your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

When time passes, memories seem to grow weathered, and even hardships can seem like happy times.

Isn't it odd? Why do we always feel just as guilty when we think of our teachers as when we think of our parents? And not because of anything that happened at school -- no, not at all. It's because of what became of us later.

This heart, if like a flower provides fragrances to othersThen it also tramples the love for and memories of those who prick it with their thorns As this heart isn't made of flowers.

We keep stuff in order to hang on to what's important, but it's an illusion ... These objects are not bridges to the past, they're bridges to memories of the past. But they are not the past.

Su un tram affollato a Roma all'ora di chiusura una sera d'inverno, qualcuno per sbaglio mi tocca la spalla. Non mi giro a guardare chi è e non saprò mai se è un uomo o una donna, una sgualdrina o un prete, ma quel tocco delicato scatena in me un tale desiderio di tenerezza e di cura che sospiro; mi sento cedere le ginocchia. Non è un sospiro profumato di violette né uno spasimo chopinesco: è qualcosa di rozzo e reale come i peli sulla mia pancia

Some memories are burned with fire on the walls of my heart, making it impossible to erase them without losing the heart itself.