5,121 Quotes About Memories

…suddenly I wanted to go back and be in all the places I’d ever been, every street I’d walked down, every room I’d sat down in. I wanted to see it all again. I tried to remember my life, flipping through Polaroids in my mind. . . . But I knew that even if I could go back, if such a thing were possible with exactitude, in life or in dreams, there was really no point.

I will never forget tonight, not for as long as I live. One day, if I’m lucky, I’ll tell some young girl all my stories, just like Stormy told me hers. And I’ll get to live them again.When I’m old and gray, I will look back on this night, and I will remember it just as it was.Is.We’re still here. It’s not the future yet.

But as much as I tried, I couldn't forget my past. The events that had shaped me continued to weigh on my soul.

What are people if not the sum total of their memories?

Boiling point. Voice it roars Running down memory's corridor Life's a game, it ends one day
And everything's fair in love and war

I think that a childhood can sometimes last a lifetime.

Travel for memories, no matter how much they fade. That's reason enough.

Funny thing," he said sitting in Zeke's kitchen with his wife, "things dat happened long time uhgo used to seem way off, but now it all seems lak it wuz yistiddy. You think it's dead but de past ain't stopped breathin' yet.

How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.