These top 240 memories quotes will remind you of who you are and where you plan to go.
The good, the bad, the exciting, the wonderful—every quote you might want or need would probably be included in our list, so be sure you check them all out.
Memories are wonderful things, and though a chunk of our memories may be faded or may even hurt, they’re all part of what makes us who we are.
So, let’s delve into this curated list of the best quotes about memories.
Check them out now.
Best Memories Quotes
1. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” – Lois Lowry
2. “You may have lost things, persons in your life. But you can capture them in your memories forever.” – Anonymous
3. “Life is shorter, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them.” – Anonymous
4. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
5. “Those sweet memories of my life spent with you are the best. They make me smile no matter what is going on in my present life.” – Anonymous
6. “We never realize the value of something in our life until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
7. “I knew that looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew that looking back on the laughs would bring tears.” – Cat Stevens
8. “A moment lasts for seconds, but the memories last forever.” – Anonymous
9. “At some part of life or the other, we all become memories for others. So make sure you be a good one.” – Anonymous
Unforgettable Memories Quotes
10. “A picture is worth a thousand words, but a memory is priceless.” – Anonymous
11. “You don’t just take a picture with a camera, you take it with your heart.” – Anonymous
12. “It takes one thought, one second, one moment, or positive memory to act as a catalyst for the light to gradually seep in again.” – Fearne Cotton
13. “The best thing about memories is making them.” – Anonymous
14. “The real moment has disappeared, but you will always have the memories to remind you.” – Anonymous
15. “Things end but memories last forever.” – Kumar Milan
16. “A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.” – Anonymous
17. “Sometimes, things become possible if we want them bad enough.” – T.S. Elliot
18. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” – L.M. Montgomery
19. “There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.” – Haruki Murakami
Good Memories Quotes
20. “Never forget those memories of your life that made you both cry and laugh.” – Anonymous
21. “People change. Memories don’t.” – Anonymous
22. “Every moment comes on when I hear that old song that we used to sing with the words all wrong.” – Anonymous
23. “People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but actually it’s the good ones that drive you insane.” – Anonymous
24. “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.” – Mark Lawrence
25. “Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.” – Jennifer L. Armentrout
26. “What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?” – S.J. Watson
27. “We do not remember days; we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
28. “Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.” – Thomas Fuller
29. “Sometimes, a perfect memory can be ruined if put into words.” – Nova Ren Suma
Happy Memories Quotes
30. “Memories play a very confusing role. They make us laugh when we remember the times we cried, but make us cry when we remember the times we laughed!” – Anonymous
31. “Make sure that your life is full of happy memories in the end.” – Anonymous
32. “Remembering is easy. It’s forgetting that’s hard.” – Brodi Ashton
33. “Sometimes, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.” – Arthur Golden
34. “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life,and have fun, and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” – Shannon L. Alder
35. “The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.” – Robert Brault
36. “Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards?” – Allyson Braithwaite Condie
37. “When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.” – Jodi Picoult
38. “Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” – Willa Cather
39. “I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that’s all you have—happy memories.” – Sarah Strohmeyer
Great Memories Quotes
40. “Live your life so when you’re dying, you are smiling, even if everyone else is crying.” – Anonymous
41. “Life brings tears, smiles, and memories. The tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever.” – Anonymous
42. “Humans, not places, make memories.” – Ama Ata Aidoo
43. “There are memories that time does not erase. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” – Cassandra Claire
44. “The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.” – R.J. Palacio
45. “People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.” – Haruki Murakami
46. “I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
47. “You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.” – Jamie Weise
48. “Our memories give us a voice and bear witness to history, so that others might learn. So they might celebrate our triumphs and be warned of our failures.” – Mohinder Suresh
49. “I find out more and more every day how important it is for people to share their memories.” – Fred Rogers
Heartfelt Memories Quotes
50. “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” – Oscar Wilde
51. “The best memories of our life can never be captured in pictures, they are always captured by heart.” – Anonymous
52. “Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” – Ranata Suzuki
53. “When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.” – Zara Zarr
54. “I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
55. “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.” – Ranata Suzuki
56. “There’s something about a place you’ve been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone, they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul.” – Cassandra Clare
57. “Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.” – Ransom Riggs
58. “We cannot change the past, but we can reshape the future. Young people have the opportunity to create a happier, better future.” – Dalai Lama
59. “If bad memories are keeping you from being happy, try crowding out the destructive memories with new and interesting thoughts. Stay busy—in mind and body—and time is on your side.” – Scott Adams
Beautiful Memories Quotes
60. “Someone said that God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.” – J.M. Barrie
61. “The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you.” – Rodman Philbrick
62. “Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibilities. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.” – Shaun David Hutchinson
63. “Let us not burthen our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone.” – William Shakespeare
64. “The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.” – Anonymous
65. “Now that I have opened that bottle of memories, they’re pouring out like wine—crimson and bittersweet.” – Ellen Hopkins
66. “What you remember saves you.” – W. S. Merwin
67. “Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.” – Bram Stoker
68. “Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.” – Anonymous
69. “The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do, I believe when we go back to them.” – Charles Dickens
70. “Enjoy good memories. But don’t spend your remaining days here looking back, wishing for the good old days.” – Randy Alcorn
71. “And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but asleep, and it is well to gather treasure for them.” – Vincent van Gogh
72. “Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.” – Gloria Gaither
73. “For some, life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.” – Laura Swenson
74. “When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, but I shall hold something which I have traded for it. It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price.” – Anonymous
Painful Memories Quotes
75. “It’s sad when someone can walk right by you and pretend you were never a big part of their life.” – Jessica Butil
76. “Sad memories are bad, but good memories are the worst.” – Anonymous
77. “Once upon a time, you said I was your life, but now I’m not even a part of it.” – Anonymous
78. “It’s regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy, I did everything just right.” – Mark Vonnegut
79. “Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.” – Anonymous
80. “I cry for the time that you were almost mine. I cry for the memories I’ve left behind. I cry for the pain, the lost, the old, the new. I cry for the times I thought I had you.” – Neil Pathrick Aman
81. “Sometimes, you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Anonymous
82. “Good times become good memories and bad times become good lessons.” – Anonymous
83. “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” – John Banville
84. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Shannon L. Alder
85. “Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.” – Jess Rothenberg
86. “Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.” – Richard Kadrey
87. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Richard Puz
89. “Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.” – Elijah Wood
89. “Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.” – Harlan Coben
Sweet Memories Quotes
90. “Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – Kevin Arnold
91. “Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
92. “You may be gone from my sight, but you are never gone from my heart.” – Anonymous
93. “How lucky you are to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Anonymous
94. “He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. And that thanks to this artifice, we manage to endure the burden of the past.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
95. “When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.” – Bill Clinton
96. “People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” – Haruki Murakami
97. “In my life, I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.” – Harry Connick Jr.
98. “It’s not easy remembering the good times.” – Cecelia Ahern
99. “Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.” – Marcel Proust
Emotional Memories Quotes
100. “Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.” – Melina Marchetta
101. “There are memories I am better off without—things better lost forever.” – S.J. Watson
102. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” – Dante Alighieri
103. “Sometimes, it’s better to bunk a class and enjoy it with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
104. “But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.” – Margaret Mitchell
105. “Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.” – Margaret Stohl
106. “You can never be really happy if you keep holding on to those bad memories which makes you sad.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
107. “Good memories are most often created without conscious effort. These are the memories that result from those unselfish acts or behaviors that give of our time, talents, or gifts without any due regard for repayment.” – Byron R. Pulsifer
108. “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.” – Kazuo Ishiguro
109. “A healthy relationship requires you to let go of the bitter memories of the past and move on with a new hope.” – Adam Green
Memories Quotes About Friends and Family
110. “It was an opportunity to honor our memories and to make room for new ones.” – Jilly Pretzel
111. “The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.” – Anonymous
112. “Good times and crazy friends make the best memories.” – Anonymous
113. “Your memory is the glue that binds your life together. Everything you are today is because of your amazing memory.” – Kevin Horsley
114. “Our paths may change as life goes along, but the bond between friends remains ever strong.” – Anonymous
115. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” – Helen Keller
116. “We are no longer bf-gf. We are strangers to each other but with lots of memories.” – Anonymous
117. “A good friend knows all your best stories. A best friend has been there to live them with you.” – Anonymous
118. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” – Anonymous
119. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
120. “You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.” – Anonymous
121. “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future.” – Andrew Solomon
122. “The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.” – Rachel Vincent
123. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” – Alysha Speer
124. “My family legacy is mainly memories, so I especially cherish my few tangible mementos.” – Maureen Killoran
Memories Quotes About Love
125. “Make memories in people’s hearts because your memories will be all that’s left of you when you’re gone.” – Anonymous
126. “The heart that truly loves never forgets.” – Proverb
127. “Memories are always invisible to the eyes but can be felt with the heart.” – Anonymous
128. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Anonymous
129. “I miss the time spent with you, our chats, and definitely you. What lovely memories we both have made together!” – Anonymous
130. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
131. “When you lose someone you loved, they are never really gone, they are in your heart forever.” – Anonymous
132. “Memories are timeless treasures of the heart.” – Anonymous
133. “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.” – Beryl Markham
134. “The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle—it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act of self-preservation. It’s not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?” – Allyson Braithwaite Condie
135. “It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can’t even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It’s simply a matter of is and is no longer.” – David Levithan
136. “How do you know when it’s over? Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.” – Gunnar Ardelius
137. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory—an echo from another time, another place.” – Michel Foucault
138. “If your mind carries a heavy burden of the past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence.” – Eckhart Tolle
139. “Sometimes, letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
Memories Quotes About Travel and Adventures
140. “Never spend your fortune on the tangibles, but on experiences and intangible moments that will someday become memories.” – Jeremiah Say
141. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino
142. “Photos capture our memories in print, but our memories are always with us in our minds.” – Catherine Pulsifer
143. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
144. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali.
145. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Anonymous
146. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
147. “The amazing power of pictures to stay in the memory is well documented.” – Graham Shaw
148. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath
149. “Every day, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll
150. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
151. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.” – Anonymous
152. “My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.” – Anonymous
153. “Experience, travel—these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides
154. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ” – Anita Desai
Wise Memories Quotes
155. “That’s the problem with memories—you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.” – Shaun David Hutchinson
156. “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” – Saul Bellow
167. “The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.” – Terry Pratchett
158. “I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” – Sophia Loren
159. “And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.” – John Green
160. “There were some memories, though, that never faded.” – Cassandra Clare
161. “I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places—further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.” – J.A. Redmerski
162. “Memories are good, as long as we keep them in the rear-view mirror and keep moving.” – Anonymous
163. “Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.” – Siddhartha Mukherjee
164. “What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.” – Emmet Fox
165. “Don’t let the good old days be your memory. Make each day a good day so as you are growing older life is an adventure to be enjoyed not a memory.” – Catherine Pulsifer
166. “Memories are like antiques—the older they are, the more valuable they become.” – Marinela Reka
167. “No one can ever take your memories from you. Each day is a new beginning. Make good memories every day.” – Catherine Pulsifer
168. “When time fades memory, and loved ones are no longer with us, what is left? Photos.” – A. R. Knight
169. “Focus on the good memories, discard the not so good.” – Catherine Pulsifer
More Memories Quotes From Famous Authors
170. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” – Haruki Murakami
171. “The town was paper, but the memories were not.” – John Green
172. “I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
173. “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” – Haruki Murakami
174. “Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” – Beryl Markham
175. “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” – Nicholas Sparks
176. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley
177. “Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself—the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds.” – Haruki Murakami
178. “The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” – Lisa Wingate
179. “Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.” – Mitch Albom
180. “Experience has taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.” – Nicholas Sparks
181. “To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.” – Edgar Allan Poe
182. “Mindfulness can be an extremely grand subject, but on the other hand, it’s very basic. It is basically, memory.” – Joseph Sorensen
183. “The many memories I will forever treasure.” – K. Hooton
184. “Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.” – William S. Burroughs
Memories Quotes on Life
185. “You may not think you have a good memory, but you remember what’s important to you.” – Rick Warren
186. “Our childhood memories are often fragments, brief moments or encounters, which together form the scrapbook of our life.” – Edith Eger
187. “Memories were a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.” – Anonymous
188. “We must use time wisely for our development and advancement; so that when we are old, we can look back and recollect the pleasant memories and deeds that we have achieved.” – Michael Lee
189. “Life can be noisy. It can be exhausting too. There are too many things vying for our attention, and sometimes we inadvertently forget how important our wellbeing is.” – Jayne Hardy
190. “Memories may fade as the years go by, but they won’t age a day.” – Michelle C. Ustaszeski
191. “When you are gone, the only truly important thing you will leave behind are the memories you’ve created. How do you want to be remembered?” – Michael Hyatt
192. “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.” – Leo Buscaglia
193. “Don’t let the good old days be your memory. Make each day a good day so as you are growing older, life is an adventure to be enjoyed, not a memory.” – Catherine Pulsifer
194. “Home is where you change your memories. Home is where you begin to dream again.” – Charles Angoff
195. “Fools try to forget. The wise love.” – Maxime Lagacé
196. “The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be. Otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.” – Eckhart Tolle
197. “The saddest part of life is when the person who gave you the best memories becomes the memory.” – Anonymous
198. “Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.” – John Irving
199. “Getting caught up in memories of the past or worrying about the future is a form of self-imposed suffering.” – Ram Dass
Memories Quotes on Experience
200. “Memory is a record of your personal experience. It is a record of trial and error, defeat and success. Past failures will warn you against repeating them.” – Wilfred Peterson
201. “Your self is created by your memories, and your memories are created by your mental habits.” – Rick Warren
202. “Those moments you fail are not the end, they are periods in which you recollect thoughts, ideas, and ambitions, and change direction.” – Benjamin Chapin
203. “Figure out how to be keen on it, make it fun, and you will learn quicker, and recollect more.” – Eimantas Gabalis
204. “Love poems are little bits of memory and story that remind and shape us back into the experience of love.” – Tito Tinajero
205. “It doesn’t matter what you did in the past, you can’t change it. The best you can do about your past is to be nostalgic with your family and loved ones about happy memories.” – Zoe McKey
206. “The human brain can remember events, skills, habits, and experiences. The sum of what is remembered is called a memory.” – Frank Knoll
207. “Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct—making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense.” – Helen Keller
208. “The details that we hold so fast are nothing more than memories past.” – Jann Arden
209. “Imagination has a great potential to improve your memory. It allows traveling beyond the horizon, attaching various stories or images to the things you wish to remember. In turn, it will strengthen your memory.” – William D
210. “A memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom.” – Joe Dispenza
211. “Memory is fiction.” – Kamal Ravikant
212. “Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present.” – Naval Ravikant
213. “Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” – Michel de Montaigne
214. “Allowing the new to happen means putting aside your memory so the past does not interfere.” – Osho
Memories Quote Packed With Life Lessons
215. “Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” – Cicero
216. “Accept your past without regrets, and face your future without fears.” – Paulo Coelho
217. “Visit your soul, not your past.” – Paulo Coelho
218. “That’s what the world is, after all—an endless battle of contrasting memories.” – Haruki Murakami
219. “Memories are like salt—the right amount brings out the flavor in food, too much ruins it.” – Paulo Coelho
220.“Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present.” – Paulo Coelho
221. “A mind is not alive when it is burdened with centuries of memory.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
222. “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie the Pooh
223. “Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original. It is a continuing act of creation.” – Rosalind Cartwright
224. “All that is left will be memories, and eventually they, too, will vanish like dust.” – Haruki Murakami
225. “Memory can never produce everlasting joy.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
226. “I’ve learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, and words can never substitute action.” – Paulo Coelho
227. “The biggest lie of human memory is that it feels true.” – Jonah Lehrer
228. “Memories are not fixed or frozen, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.” – Oliver Sacks
229. “It is important to recognize that the memories and past events which make up a man’s historical identity are no more than a selection.” – Alan Watts
Other Meaningful Memories Quotes
230. “I use memories, but do not allow memories to use me.” – Shiva Sutras
231. “One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
232. “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step; they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.” – William Golding
233. “Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.” – Desmond Tutu
234. “I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative.” – Van Morrison
235. “Past is a fiction. You can’t go back. All that remains is a hazy interpretation of a hazy memory.” – Naval Ravikant
236. “Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
237. “Take care of all your memories, for you cannot relive them.” – Bob Dylan
238. “Time’s the thief of memory.” – Stephen King
239. “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” – Corrie ten Boom
240. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester
Were These Quotes Able to Take You Down Memory Lane?
Memories tell us a lot about who we are. We are built with a million memories within us. And though we can only remember bits and pieces of our childhood, there’s no denying that it’s one of the major pieces of the puzzle that created who we are today. Our memories give us a sense of identity—the kind of life we lived, our pasts, our present, and the future we want to create.
But more than this, memories also remind us of the importance of tradition and lets us appreciate the future better. And though it’s nice to reminisce and live in our memories once in a while, let’s all remember that these are just stepping stones to help us navigate our present and future lives.
Which of these quotes are your favorites? What do you think about your memories? Do they help you with planning for your future in any way? If so, kindly share your thoughts in the comments down below.
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