Memories Quotes

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophical, Diaries, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

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• As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.

  Billy Joel

  Beautiful, Yesterday, Long

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• Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

  Ned Rorem

  Waste

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Dark, Deep Water

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• Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

  Louis Malle

  Moving, Frozen, Alive

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• Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

  Li-Young Lee

  Sweet, Painful, Painful Memories

  Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.17, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

  Samuel Butler

  Life And Death, Remember, Forget

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.83, The Floating Press

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• No day shall erase you from the memory of time

  Virgil

  September 11, Paganism, Erase

  Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.239, Univ of California Press

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Your Loss

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• Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.

  Ed Parker

  Space, May, Time And Space

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• Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

  Marcel Proust

  Wander, Our Memories, Our Lives

  1927 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve '.

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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  Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

  Anita Pallenberg

  Time, Heart, Years

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• The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

  Mencius

  Dream, Things In Life, Best Things

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• Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

  Bob Dylan

  Travel, Vacation, Care

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.

  David Brenner

  Friendship, Best Friend, Laughter

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• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Happiness, Educational

  Time, August 28, 1972.

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• Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Inspiration, Tears

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  It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moving On, Growing Up, Moving Forward

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sadness, Joy, Misery

  Dante Alighieri (2009). “I'll Tell what I Saw: Images from Dante's Divine Comedy”

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• Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Imagination, Records, Computer

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• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Butterfly, Months

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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