5,121 Quotes About Memories

Je suis interdite de passé. Quel chagrin d'être privée des souvenirs de son enfance, et des gens qu'on aimait.

A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you’ve been. You carry them with you wherever you go.

No matter how vivid memories may be, they can’t win out against the power of time.

Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.

If, as we grow older, we scrutinize our own past at the expense of 'problems', it is simply because we handle memories more readily than ideas.

we re-create the dish that couldn’t be made without our journey.

It seems like a long time, but what are nine years except for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and thinking about the past?

Of the Scriptorium men, Mr. Sweatman was the last to return to work. He shook Gareth's hand and took mine to kiss it.'How proud and happy your father would have been,' he said, and I held his gaze, knowing the memory of Da was stronger when it was shared.[Esme Nicholl]

Stupid photos are better than no photos at all.