Memory great quotes, aphorisms, ideas, quotations, thoughts and opinions about memory, memories, remembrances, recolletions and the art of enjoying nice past events.
Yes, if a memory, thanks to forgetfulness, has been unable to contract any tie, to forge any link between itself and the present, if it has remained in its own place, of its own date, if it has kept its distance, its isolation in the hollow of a valley or on the peak of a mountain, it makes us suddenly breathe an air new to us just because it is an air we have formerly breathed, an air purer than that the poets have vainly called Paradisiacal, which offers that deep sense of renewal only because it has been breathed before, inasmuch as the true paradises are paradises we have lost.
Marcel Proust
Historical memory is fundamental for man, it serves to remind him that his journey through time is full of stupid nonsensical achievements and painful atrocious actions.
Carl William Brown
I also remember what I don’t want, and I can’t forget what I want. (Memini etiam quae nolo, oblivisci non possum quae volo.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recalling the past with the memories of one’s own memory in an attempt to make time flow backwards, bringing our loved ones back to life in one’s imagination, is a process, not without a certain pain, which helps us to get closer more quickly to the end of our days, at the end of our epochal duration.
Carl William Brown
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas Fuller
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Even the most beautiful, serene and smiling photographs of my mother unfortunately remind me that she is no longer here, and therefore generate in me a great nostalgia and deep tragic emotions.
Carl William Brown
The past, to remember it, is more beautiful than the present, like the future to imagine it. Why? For the present alone has its true form in the human conception; it is the only image of truth; and all truth is ugly.
Giacomo Leopardi
Memories keep us stay alive as they gently cuddle us along the squirming roads of our lives and even warn us sometimes of insidious pitfalls.
Erik Pevernagie
Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos
Recalling in our brain the memories of our past life with our loved ones, and above all with one’s mother, has the fundamental function of anesthetizing the pain of our present existence, that is, of trying to eradicate the tragic suffering of our current reality. It is a procedure that helps us deceive the linearity of time, making it more circular and affectionate, as well as more uncertain in its progression.
Carl William Brown
Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
Ed Parker
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom
The fondest memories are made when gathered around the table.
Anonymous
The memory of benefits received is fragile, the memory of injuries suffered is tenacious. (Memoria beneficiorum fragilis, iniuriarum tenax.)
Seneca
True paradises are paradises we have lost.
Marcel Proust
I don’t know why, but when I saw it, Aurélia, Angélique, Sylvie, Jemmy, Octavie, Isis, Corilla, Émilie came to my mind, and I felt like the poor Nerval hanging from a gate!
Carl William Brown
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld
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
Do not think that people stand only on two legs! There is another invisible third leg that keeps them standing: Good memories of the past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
Marilynne Robinson
Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather
Happy memories are like lifesavers, keeping us buoyant amid stormy seas and changing times.
Rich DiSilvio
If the most valuable thing you have are memories, you have led a rich life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
The souvenir is a “secularized relic” and it cannot but evoke melancholy.
Walter Benjamin
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
Snoopy
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
A memory is a beautiful thing, it’s almost a desire that you miss.
Gustave Flaubert
Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
David Brenner
Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
Ivan Goncharov
This is how memories are made… by going with the flow.
Amanda Bynes
Memories are powerful- whether filled with peace or turbulence.
Chaker Khazaal
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
Never underestimate the magic of a memory. A life full of great memories is a rich one.
Ellie Lieberman
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Guy de Maupassant
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.
Gregory Maguire
Memories sustain us – they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected.
You Yenn Teo
Memories are timeless treasures of the heart.
Unknown
Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
Jodi Picoult
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Günter Grass
Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.
Tan Twan Eng
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him.
Mark Lawrence
The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by.
Alek Wek
Memory is like a story washed by rain; a few erased moments, a few smudged, few unharmed.
Alka Dimri Saklani
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Bob Dylan
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.
Unknown
Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is ‘like’ we are remembering.
Graham Greene
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Lois Lowry
When my mother was still alive I was certainly happier than nowadays where I can only have memories of her love and a smile on a picture that makes me so sad!
Carl William Brown
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.
Robert Breault
Memory is like a cat. It comes and wraps itself around you when you least desire it, and the moment you seek it out, it disappears.
Melodie Winawer
Memories are truths we have chosen.
C.E. O’Grady
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
Kevin Arnold
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
William Faulkner
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Aristotle
Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.
Abhijit Naskar
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
Paul Auster
Memories are like bogies of the train, one pulls the other.
Alka Dimri Saklani
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
John Banville
Always have old memories, and young hopes.
Arsene Houssaye
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
Jennifer Armentrout
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
Julio Cortázar
The common denominator of all the photos is always time, the time that slips away between the fingers, between the eyes, the time of things, of people, the time of lights and emotions, a time that will never be the same again.
Jeanloup Sieff
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories.
Jeremy Irons
That’s the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.
Shaun David Hutchinson
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami
The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you.
Rodman Philbrick
To be continued … in the meanwhile I would recommend to read Marcel Proust: In Search Of Lost Time.
