Memories Memories Quotes Quotes & Sayings

We thought everything would be
forgotten, but I still remember your
claws running down my back.

I wonder if you still think about us,
the way I do.

How our legs would crash
into each other in the middle
of the night, and how we ended
up creating the moon in the
confines of our beds. — Zaeema J. Hussain

I spend my days trying to remember what only my soul knows but my mind can't comprehend. — Raneem Kayyali

At the end of our lives, nothing remains except memories. — Debasish Mridha

I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded? — Sanhita Baruah

Things don't always end up the way we planned but it doesn't mean the plan wasn't magical while it lasted. — Kealohilani

When I was younger, I use to laugh at my mom when she was silly. Now that I'm older, I find myself just as silly as her. Thanks mom, for teaching us that even as adults, it's OK to be fun and enjoy life laughing. I now get to teach my nephews and stepdaughter the same thing. — April Mae Monterrosa

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand. — Aisha Mirza

Moments, rather than possessions, are the true treasures of life. — Frank Sonnenberg

I adore forgotten words, long lost folk tales, and books with pages soft and crumbling. I am a collector of scents and memories. The things that others bury are the things I hold most dear. — Nichole McElhaney

You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with. — Nikki Rowe

Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Smile as often as possible and love as much as you can In the end...the heart felt memories you leave behind is all that really counts! — Timothy Pina

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife. — Anurag Shourie

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. — Caroline Kennedy

When people pass on we must choose how to remember them. While our loved ones sleep for eternity we must carry on with our daily toil. We can elect to harbor adoration and love in our precious memories or cling to animosity and detestation. We can kindly remember our ancestors or continue to feel embedded enmity towards people who no longer walk this earth. Regardless the human frailties of the recently departed, it seems that we should aspire to clutch the best part of our ancestors being fast to our hearts. A book encapsulating a departed person's life has many pages; we must choose which chapters to treasure and what chapters to disregard or downplay. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed — Munia Khan

Let us measure time not by moments but by memories. — Debasish Mridha

College life is different, entirely different like you don't have to get ready and wear that red and crisp blue school uniform and look alike every day. Free to define ourselves with statement attire. Good thing. — Parul Wadhwa

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing. — Carla H. Krueger

The best gifts in life are the memories of love that we have given away. — Debasish Mridha

By letting go of the past with love and gratitude, I am creating beautiful memories, which are living in me, but I am living at present not in memories. — Debasish Mridha

Moments give birth to new memories — Munia Khan

When you're having a depressive surge painful memories can start to emerge. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet. — Shannon L. Alder

when I finally begin to drift
into sleep
your memory is the...first
and the moonlight
the last, to kiss my face. — Sanober Khan

Memories are interesting. Interesting because they are faded yet detailed, pictured yet difficult to decipher, yelling yet mute, beautiful yet dreadful, magical yet logical, and familiar yet new. We listen; we encounter; we observe; we do; we learn; and, we talk. Everything we do or experience becomes our memory. Indeed, memories are interesting. — Suyog Ketkar

you were
and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees

that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories. — Sanober Khan

for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly. — Sanober Khan

Life is full of days and each day comes with its own happenstances; good and unbearable ones! Some days are remembered, for though such days come and go, they leave their memorable footprints on our minds; footprints of difficulties, footprints of sweetness and joy, footprints of regrets, and footprints worth pondering over and over! Until something happens to you in the day, you shall least remember that moment of time and day in your lifetime! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love. — Debasish Mridha

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.
A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.
This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber. — Juliet Marillier

Memories are what we cherish so let's make the present worth cherishing. — Amit Abraham

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Leadership success means your mission and vision must outlive you, but this will not happen by accident. We have enough stories around us to prove that lasting legacies have to be well managed, planned and structured for continuity. If not, you will carry your name, success and influence to the grave, only leaving short-lived memories of your achievements and impact. — Archibald Marwizi

Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out. — Louise Penny

I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you. — Kellie Elmore

Nothing cuts a neural route faster through the brain then a pinch of pain. Periods of unhappiness penetrate and scar the brain. Experiencing intense periods of unpleasantness incites us to grow. If we can bunt the destructive forces of extreme pain and embrace its forceful impact for its educational value, experiencing profound pain causes us to appreciate the pleasure of simply living in the moment, enjoying each blade of grass in nature's glorious bouts of beauty. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings. — Carew Papritz

most of the times
it's the hardest
to say
what I love more

you

or

your memory. — Sanober Khan

Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason. — Edward Fahey

Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person's cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I intend to live in the beauty of past memories for I know them the best. At this moment, the future is unknown so it will be an adventure for me. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. — Frances Mayes

If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers. — Sahara Sanders

Life is meant to create memories not money. — Debasish Mridha

I still think about you at night
you come back to me with the stars. — C.J. Carlyon

Great nations leave great ruins, great men leave great memories — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Never abandon your dreams due to encounter with a hurdle. Seek grace to overcome the hurdle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day. — David Kudler

And life goes on like this,
an uncomplete poem. — Arzum Uzun

Some people walk into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others walk into our lives and we want to leave footprints on their face! — Auliq Ice

Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood. — Haruki Murakami

Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events. — Molly Friedenfeld

Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale. — Debasish Mridha

Memories are thins sheets of metal that can be easily molded or shaped. They possess the power to either tickle your heart or haunt your soul. — Mary MacDowell

My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me. — Gabrielle Dubois

Some memories just stay. They just refuse to give up on staying. Maybe it is good that they stay. It helps us stay rooted. It helps us to know who we really are. — Aditi Bose

Create memories; forget misery. — Debasish Mridha

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories — Michael Biondi

The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada. — Brian D'Ambrosio

A photograph captures a moment for eternity. — Debasish Mridha

The human mind is a complicated place ... We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to. — Corey Ann Haydu

There is nothing better
than us,
making memories of us. — Timothy Joshua

A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time. — Debasish Mridha

Reading books makes us more attentive to our personage and the aesthetic world that we live in. Writers that we idolize use language, logic, and nuance to paint physical and emotional scenes with refined precision. A writer's use of vivid language creates lingering aftereffects that work their wonder on the reader's malleable mind. A stirred mind resurrects our semiconscious memories; it causes us to summon up enduring images of our family, friends, and acquaintances. Just as importantly, inspirational writing makes us recognize our own telling character traits and identify our formerly unexpressed thoughts and feelings. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You can't buy memories. You make them. — Jury Nel

Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask. — K. Martin Beckner

The number of dead selves we keep alive within us is insane — Srividya Srinivasan

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink ... how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of your tiny breaths as you fell asleep ... — Carew Papritz

When she remembered a summer it would be this one. When she remembered love it would be his. — C.J. Carlyon

Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones. — Aisha Mirza

Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Even though life is finite, the universe created you with infinite love. Celebrate your birthday with infinite joy and create endless memories. — Debasish Mridha

I am wishing of a memory, where you gave me everything you had
and where I offered you the pieces that were left
of me. — Richard Perez

The body is a museum for memories. I am the Smithsonian. — Wheston Chancellor Grove

I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ... " instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway. — Marie Calloway

If I'm not around
I hope you'll remember me
and together we will hold on to our favorite song. — Sanober Khan

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Don't resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go. — Debasish Mridha

Memories should fade with time but I do not understand why they become clearer as days go by. — Auliq Ice

And then you leave the memories behind.
When you look at the pictures
It seems like it was always fun.
But you know that
in that photos everyone was actually broken deep down inside.
Wounded.
Bleeding.
Crying and yelling at the same time.
They were some kinda wounded birds ...
Eagles, wrens ...
When you remind that,
you became some kinda phoenix.
And life goes on like this.
like an uncomplete poem. — Arzum Uzun

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan

Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together — Kiran Joshi

When you go into the psych ward, you can't have anything with you except colored pencils. You can't have any electronics. If you have a drawstring on your pants, a belt, shoelaces, a hood, or extra-long fabric, your very clothes are ripped off your back. They search you with a metal detector like you're a criminal, doing everything short of putting their hand up your butt. Before you go through those cold, automatic, barred doors, you know your life is not your own. This is especially true during the first week, while you stare at florescent lighting and wait impatiently for your meds to kick in. I wish I had remembered the psych ward prison cell a week ago. If I had, maybe I wouldn't be wearing this hospital gown that they gave me until I can get more compliant clothes. — Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

There can be no intellectual, spiritual, or emotional life without the substratum of memory. Without cognition and awareness of beauty and appreciation of our limited time on planet Earth, humankind's sojourn would be a colorless collage composed of the base acts of a biological mass endeavoring merely to survive. Without the ability to recall striking memories, our emotional life would be stillborn. Absent authentic memories, our life struggles would seem purposeless: human beings would exhibit no capacity to reflect awe when witnessing the bounty of nature's plenitude or be able to take in and express intense reverence for all that is sacred. Without memory, there would not be a dais to support faith or any ability to imagine a God; the concepts of good and evil would be nonexistent; and the past and the future would become less relevant than the choice between salt or pepper, and paper or plastic. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is about cherishing memories, getting lost in moments of beauty, and enjoying profound joy and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Time, so majestically fine, was passing by when I asked him to stop, a while, and lay his imprint upon the spaciousness of feelings: his face, reflected in the mirror of my memories, his smile, envisaged by my eyes, in quest of his new dwellings with wells of meanings. And there, he stopped its moment... and kissed my curiosity. It was then when I felt in love with him. — Soar

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday. — Jason E. Hodges

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep. — Robin Caldwell

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought that love was freedom. — Tessa Shaffer

I do not want to miss the historic opportunity to embedd the smallest memories of seeing you grow into the colossal fabric of my life. — Harshada Pathare

Moments are fleeting. Memories are permanent. Love is forever. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Decorate your birthday with love and memories not with years. — Debasish Mridha

Memories can be hard to forget and painful to remember that those who hate us now once loved us. — Auliq Ice

And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers. — Sanhita Baruah

Your memories don't possess you, you possess your memories. — Guy T. Simpson Jr.

When you build a house
You nail down memories
Paint and stain the fabric of time — Richard L. Ratliff