Memories Quotes - Page 3

• The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.295, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Past

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• I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Block, Past

  "Valentines & Vitriol". Book by Rex Reed, 1977.

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• Memory feeds imagination.

  Amy Tan

  Imagination

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.27, Penguin

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• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Yesterday is just a memory.

  Bob Dylan

  Yesterday

  Song: Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

  Richard Kadrey

  Missing You, Tears, Pieces

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  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

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Grieving, Funeral

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

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• Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

  Georges Duhamel

  Missing You, Good Life, Cherish Every Moment

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Love, Relationship, Sympathy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.60, 谷月社

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• Always have old memories, and young hopes.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Life, Young, Good Memories

  "Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature". 1915.

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• Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sweet, Bears, Remember

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• 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

  Inspiring, Travel, Home

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Stone of Farewell: Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.156, Penguin

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• Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

  William Faulkner

  Believe, August, Knowing

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

  Robert Breault

  Happy Times, Want, Sad Times

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• No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

  August Strindberg

  Travel, Car, Matter

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Political, Stronger

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• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Imagination, Wife

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• Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Taught, Moments, Passage Of Time

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• I am a miser of my memories of you
  And will not spend them.

  Witter Bynner

  Misers

  Witter Bynner (1919). “The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover”

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• Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Inspiring, Past

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• 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

  Past, Brain, Looks

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• The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

  Robert Breault

  Should Have, Moments, Old Memories

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