Life Is About Memories Quotes

#1. Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. ... It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.

Joan D. Chittister

#2. I always have this strange feeling that I am this very old woman laying down about to die. You know, that my life is just her memories, or something.

Celine

#3. I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

Heidi Julavits

#4. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Charlotte Eriksson

#5. I'd rather do something than read about it."
"That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*."
-pg 138-9

Dean Hughes

#6. I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.

Erika Lance

#7. Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

William Zinsser

#8. We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April's hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman's point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute's sigh and the invaders' fear of memories.

Mahmoud Darwish

#9. Our culture has the expectation that the memories of a happy childhood will somehow ground you and prepare you for adult life. But what about the memories that cut, that wound, that won't heal?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#10. Too many of us spend too much time worrying about how long we are going to live rather than focusing on how we live. People cannot live forever, but memories can. Remember that with every breath and your life will change.

Tanya Masse

#11. The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

Lisa Wingate

#12. To me, life is about creating memories. The regular days kind of just blend in. You have to create special times so that you will always remember them.

Heidi Klum

#13. I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

Marge Piercy

#14. Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible." But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.

William T. Vollmann

#15. It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.

Auliq Ice

#16. I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

Michael Biondi

#17. May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

Stephen King

#18. Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone, anyone, love me?

John Green

#19. Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

Jose Parla

#20. Life is meant to create memories not money.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.

Katie Grissom

#22. When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

Sofia Coppola

#24. I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

Kim Kardashian

#25. Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

Danny Huston

#26. What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

William Faulkner

#27. It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

Kasie West

#28. The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves ... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

Edith Schaeffer

#29. We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Patricia Hampl

#30. People cannot live forever, but memories can. Never pass up an opportunity to create awesome memories with your special ones.

Tanya Masse

#31. There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.

P.D. James

#32. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

Atul Purohit

#33. Life is about cherishing memories, getting lost in moments of beauty, and enjoying profound joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#34. People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.

Shirley Manson

#35. Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.

K. Martin Beckner

#36. This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.

Nina LaCour

#37. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#38. I would remember this as one of those moments in life that I can hold onto and smile about, forever.

Belle Hale

#39. Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you're going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now - pay attention to that and all will be well.

Neale Donald Walsch

#40. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Haruki Murakami

#41. Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life ... but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

Roald Dahl

#42. I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#43. You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come.

Tanya Masse

#44. By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

D.K. LeVick

#45. My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

Nan Goldin

#46. You gave me my life back. You cared about me enough to push back my demons. You made me want to be with you every minute of the day because you made me feel things that no one else could. And whether you're lying beside me or living in my memories, I will love you. Forever. Always.

Lisa De Jong

#47. And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!

C. JoyBell C.