“Memories are forever.”

“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”

Daniel H. Wilson book Robopocalypse

“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”

Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) Mexican writer

“Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter