One of the best things about life is that it’s full of memories. Memories make up who we are and what we’ve experienced. They remind us of good times and help us through tough times. When you focus on creating amazing moments every day, your life will be filled with incredible memories that you’ll look back on with fondness.
Here are some quotes about memories to motivate you to start living your life to the fullest!
Quotes About Memories
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Lois Lowry
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Haruki Murakami
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
John Banville
Humans, not places, make memories.
Ama Ata Aidoo
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 García Márquez
There are memories that time does not erase…Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
Cassandra Clare
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
L.M. Montgomery
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
For each thorn, there’s a rosebud… For each twilight – a dawn… For each trial – the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud – a rainbow… For each shadow – the sun… For each parting – sweet memories when sorrow is done.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Rose Kennedy
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
Mencius
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Henry David Thoreau
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both – for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet … One should count each day as a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A. A. Milne
Always have old memories, and young hopes.
Arsene Houssaye
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
Marcel Proust
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Susan B. Anthony
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Khalil Gibran
The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we’ve seen, who we’ve loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that’s made us who we are.
Nate Berkus
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Georges Duhamel
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
Mattie Stepanek
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
Walt Disney
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
Ashleigh Brilliant
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
Tad Williams
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by…not paying attention?
Joshua Foer
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.
Paul Bowles
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali
Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.
Anita Shreve
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
Henry David Thoreau
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de Bono
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
If you’d rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
Martha Beck
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let’s put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
Ronald Takaki
Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.
Iyanla Vanzant
I have memories — but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Terry Pratchett
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
Frank Deford
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.
Albert Einstein
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
Henry David Thoreau
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William Faulkner
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one’s life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind’s eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.
N. Scott Momaday
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
We’re never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water – if very young children don’t begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.
Elise M. Boulding
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, ‘There. That taste. That’s the taste of my childhood.
Pat Conroy
The best thing about hunting and fishing,’ the Old Man said, ‘is that you don’t have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.
Robert Ruark
There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.
John Boyne
We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.
Henry David Thoreau
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Parting Words
Memories are one of the most important things we have in life. They make us who we are and remind us of our happiest moments. As you go about your day, remember to take a moment to appreciate all the amazing memories you’ve made – both big and small.
And if you don’t have many extraordinary memories yet, get out there and start making some! The world is an amazing place and it’s waiting for you to explore it.
What’s your favorite memory? Let us know in the comments below.
P.S. You might also like these related quote collections:
- Quotes About Finding Yourself
- Quotes About the Subconscious Mind
- Quotes About Hope
- Quotes About Creativity
- Quotes About Moments
Originally Published: October 29, 2022
✍️ Lima, Peru
