All through our life, we build a lot of memories. Whether it is our childhood or marriage and kids, these memories make life so much more memorable. We all go back and check back on these memories to reminisce the times that have passed. These happy memories motivate us to accept our life without any worries.
Memories make our lives beautiful existence. Whether the memories are happy or sad we love thinking about them.
In fact sometimes we even share the good times with our loved ones and remember the time that has already gone. In the post here, we have compiled some quotes that would help you build and nurture good memories.
Beautiful Memory Quotes
1. Wouldn’t you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head, so you don’t have to look everything up and remember everything?
Kevin Anderson
2. I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Charles Baudelaire
3. A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward. D. Bono
4. Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
5. A good memory is needed after one has lied.
Pierre Corneille
6. The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
James Howell
7. The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
8. You never know when you’re making a memory.
Rickie Lee Jones
9. We can invent only with memory.
Alphonse Karr
10. Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
11. Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
John Updike
12. God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
13. We must always have old memories and young hopes.
Arsene Houssaye
14. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” Douglas Ivester
15 “I find out more and more every day how important it is for people to share their memories.” Fred Rogers
16. “Enjoy good memories. But don’t spend your remaining days here looking back, wishing for “the good old days.” Randy Alcorn
17. “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” Karl Lagerfeld
18. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” Lois Lowry
19. “Memories are like salt: the right amount brings out the flavor in food, too much ruins it.” Paulo Coelho
20. “Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.” Stephanie Meyer
21. “The amazing power of pictures to stay in the memory is well documented.” Graham Shaw
22. “The heart that truly loves never forgets.” Proverb
23. “It was an opportunity to honor our memories and to make room for new ones.” Jilly Pretzel
24. “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
25. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” L.M. Montgomery
Some More Memory Quotes
26. “Your memory is the glue that binds your life together; everything you are today is because of your amazing memory.” Kevin Horsley
27. “Visit your soul, not your past.” Paulo Coelho
28. “Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
29. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” Helen Keller
30. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” Elisabeth Foley
31. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller
32. “It’s sad when someone can walk right by you and pretend you were never a big part of their life.” Jessica Butil
33. “We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, and so is perspective.” Umberto Eco
34. “If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.” Adam Duritz
35. “A memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom.” Joe Dispenza
36. “A healthy relationship requires you to let go of the bitter memories of the past and move on with a new hope.” Adam Green, T.D.
37 “Memories may fade as the years go by, but they won’t age a day.” Michelle C. Ustaszeski
38. “Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.” Jennifer Armentrout
39. “To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.” Edgar Allan Poe
40. “A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.” Steven Wright
41. “So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it’s gratifying to have something you have done linger in people’s memories.” John Williams
42. “Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” Willa Cather
43. “Figure out how to be keen on it, make it fun, and you will learn quicker and recollect more.” Eimantas Gabalis
Inspiring Quotes About Memories
44. “Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” Cicero
45 “Accept your past without regrets, and face your future without fears.” Paulo Coelho
46 “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” Bob Dylan
47 “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
48 “Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.” Jean de Boufflers
49 “I believe that without memories, there is no life and that our memories should be of happy times.” Lee Radziwill
50 “Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!” Joseph B. Wirthlin
51 “Memories of our lives, of our works, and our deeds will continue in others.” Rosa Parks
52. “When we think of the past, it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” Margaret Atwood
53. “There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.” Sean Brady
More Memories Quotes
54. “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
55. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” Og Mandino
56. “People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.” Eckhart Tolle
57. “Our memories are not in our things. Our memories are in us.” Joshua Fields Millburn
58 “As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” Norman Wisdom
59. “We all have our time machines. Some take us back; they’re called memories. Some take us forward; they’re called dreams.” Jeremy Irons
60. “The happiest memories are moments that ended when they should have.” Robert Breault
61. “Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.” P. Lovecraft
62. “Memories were a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.” Anonymous
63. “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
Interesting Memory Quotes
64. “Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.” Steven Wright
65. “The memories we make with our family are everything.” Candace CameronBure
66. “To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.” Ricky Nelson
67. “This is how memories are made… by going with the flow.” Amanda Bynes
68. “Every man’s memory is his private literature.” Aldous Huxley
69 “It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.” Bonnie Blair
70. “The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.” Debi Mazar
71. “The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.” Cesare Pavese
72. “A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but also reflected on the past in the guise of fond memories.” Honore de Balzac
73. “Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past, and that’s often why they don’t match when we’ve shared the same experiences with someone.” John Slattery
Making Good Memories Quotes
74. “The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.” Michael Landon
75. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” Haruki Murakami
76. “There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.” Josh Billings
77. “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” Winnie the Pooh
78. “That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.” Haruki Murakami
79. “You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
80. “Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” Michel de Montaigne
81. “Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation.” Rosalind Cartwright
82. “The biggest lie of human memory is that it feels true.” Jonah Lehrer
83. “A mind is not alive when it is burdened with centuries of memory.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
Making Beautiful Memories Quotes
84. “Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.” Haruki Murakami
85. “The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.” Rachel Vincent
86. “Memories are not fixed or frozen but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.” Oliver Sacks
87. “I use memories but do not allow memories to use me.” Shiva Sutras
88. “One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.” Friedrich Nietzsche
89. “Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” Stevie Wonder
90. “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” Elie Wiesel
91. “Memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.” Kahlil Gibran
92. “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” Guy de Maupassant
93. “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.” Leonard Nimoy
94. “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” Joseph Cossman
95. “Make peace with your past so it won’t destroy your present.” Paulo Coelho
96. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” Lionel Hampton
97. “Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” Willa Cather
98. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” Khalil Gibran
99. “People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.” Haruki Murakami
100. “Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.” Leonardo da Vinci
101. “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
102. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Dr. Seuss
103. “Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” William Gibson
104. “Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.” Seneca the Younger
105. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” Michel Foucault
106. “All memories are trivia.” Kathy Acker
107. “Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.” Richard Kadrey
108. “Your memory is a monster; it summons with the will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.” John Irving
109. “You can’t trust your memory; when you think of an idea, write it down.” Joe Hinchliffe
110. “No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day.” Catherine Pulsifer
Conclusion
These are just some of the most beautiful memory quotes. Have a look at them and think of the old times of your life. Please let us know if these soul-stirring quotes inspired you to make special memories in comment box.
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