5,121 Quotes About Memories

Memories are never as painful as the things one forgets.

Life is the feel of a coral sunset over a slow-moving river. Memories of jungles and deserts and dark winds from Java. And if you really listen, you can still hear the high plains drums in New Mexico, for deep inside of you is the spirit of your past

Leaving the memories behind, I am nobody. Carrying them with me, I am somebody. In honor of the forgotten past, I pen the verses of my heart. I arise with the sound of my soul. I arise to write my history on every page. I arise to pay off my debt. I arise to open my arms to this breaking dawn.

Memories, particularly the traumatic ones, are mercurial. The longer you live with them, the more fallible you realize them to be.

In an overwhelming attempt to capture memories, people have forgotten to make memories.

An ember burns crimson beneath the black coals. A fire left for dead, forgotten. I crouch and cup my hands. I remember its promise. In the rush of my breath, the ember glows brighter. It remembers, too.

Repetition converts an action into a habit. Memories, that don't hurt, especially good ones, make you devoted to this habit.

Was it love? I don't know. Not yet. Love isn't a feeling. Love isn't just desire, though how I desired her. Love is the patient accumulation of shared memories, the joining together of two lifetimes into one, the weaving of separate stories into the story... [Love is] the greatest gift of all: a lifetime shared, to know and to be known.

Our blood stains the red dirt under my feet, and the thought of leaving it behind makes my heart ache.