Quotes about memorial
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“To leave a good memory of oneself, one must earn a place in the memory of others.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“When I try to forget you, your memories always makes a thousands question, when they don't get answers to questions, then your memories starts quarrels with me. I'm get lost in labyrinth of your memories because your memories make me desperate, how can I go away from you and from your memories, because your memories follow me everywhere and every moment.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Question, Memory, Forgetting

“The multi-dimensional aspects of water are amazing. Water contains within itself the knowing or the memory of anything it comes into contact with. This means it carries the knowing and the memory of a place and the happenings there, going back sometimes thousands of years. It is full of information… Sort of like a mirror that keeps the reflection of anything it has ever encountered.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Water, Memory

“Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Memory, Forgetting

“When you come from your memory, you create one kind of experience. When you come from your intention, you create another kind of experience altogether. Always, with your choices, you are answering a single question: Who am I? Every act is an act of self-definition.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Question, Memory

“If there is any treasure that will last until we die, it is love, care, sincerity, acceptance, kindness, friendship, integrity, wisdom and the memories we leave in the hearts of others.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Wisdom, Friendship, Memory

“He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving -- that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Pain, Sadness, Way, Memory

“Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Pain, Revenge, Memory, Past

“There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.
Source: Styxx

Truth, Memory

“Three syllables and three thousand memories.”

Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer

Source: For Darkness Shows the Stars

Memory

“In the Land of Memory the time is always.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick… but their hands never move.
There is an Unfound Door
(O lost)
and memory is the key which opens it.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

Source: Song of Susannah

Memory, Time

“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love, World, Memory

“Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Memory

“What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Variant: What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
Source: The Wedding

Dreams, Memory

“Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was _____, from _____. He felt like _____, and if the monsters caught him, he'd be _____.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Variant: Since Percy’d lost his memory, his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like
____________________, and if the monsters
caught him, he’d be____________________.
Source: The Son of Neptune

Life, Hate, Memory

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Memory

“Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Almost Heaven

Pain, Happiness, Memory

“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

People, Way, Memory

“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

Memory, Personality

“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”

Rob Thurman (1950) American writer

Source: Deathwish

Memory

“Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

Happiness, Sadness, Beauty, Memory

“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Memory

“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”

Dean Koontz book The Good Guy

Source: The Good Guy

Memory

“This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library

Imagination, Mountain, Idea, Memory

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Life, Memory

“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Source: Phantastes

Life, Memory

“Lord Peter Wimsey: I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)

Memory

“He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”

Cheryl Strayed book Torch

Source: Torch

World, Memory

“There were some memories, though, that never faded.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: There were some feelings you never forgot.
Source: City of Bones

Memory

“It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Variant: It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
Source: Along for the Ride

Imagination, Memory

“Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Memory, Heart

“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Beer, Memory, Wine, Heart

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

History, Memory

“Memory is the basis of every journey.”

Stephen King Dreamcatcher

Source: Dreamcatcher

Memory

“I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory”

Diane Ackerman book The Zookeeper's Wife

Source: The Zookeeper's Wife

Memory

“Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Beauty, Distant, Memory

“Use memories. Do not let memories use you.”

Deepak Chopra (1946) Indian-American physician, public speaker and writer

Memory

“Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Evil Thirst

Memory

“I think 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. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 113
Variant: I think 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. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)

People, Way, Memory

“Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Memory

“I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Memory, Hurt

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

On Shakespeare (1630)
Source: The Complete Poetry

Age, Star, Memory

“I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Memory

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Life, Memory, Past

“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.”

Georgette Heyer book These Old Shades

Source: These Old Shades

Life, Wisdom, Fear, Soul

“It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.”

Brad Meltzer book The Inner Circle

Source: The Inner Circle

Color, Reality, Memory, Parting

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Memory

“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”

Juliet Marillier book Heart's Blood

Source: Heart's Blood

Love, Memory, Time

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Memory

“I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Memory, Past

“How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

Charles Baudelaire book La Fanfarlo

Source: La Fanfarlo

Suffering, Memory

“You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Memory

“The things that go wrong often make the best memories.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Memory

“If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.”

Scott Hahn (1957) American theologian

Source: Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots

Memory

“I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Source: Manhattan

Life, Memory

“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

Happiness, Memory

“Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.”

Stephen King book Joyland

Source: Joyland

Memory, Time, Falseness

“It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work… and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Truth, Knowledge, Memory

“Footfalls echo in the memory
down the passage we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose garden. My words echo
thus, in your mind”

T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets

Variant: Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Source: Four Quartets

Memory