2,914 Quotes About Memory

It is better, perhaps, to be thought of as a fiction than to be discarded from memory completely.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.