Top 94 Memories Truth Quotes
#1. To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.
Michael Koryta
#2. I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth.
Nina Sankovitch
#3. I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.
Karen Marshall
#4. I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#5. Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.
Cynthia Daignault
#6. People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
T. S. Eliot
#8. THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available, which makes them highly permeable to influences from the present.
David McRaney
#9. History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.
Tobias Wolff
#11. A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.
Ary Hidayat
#13. Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold
#14. A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Joseph Joubert
#15. Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?
Jean Helion
#16. Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.
Cassandra Clare
#17. Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.
James Russell Lowell
#18. The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.
Kevin Williamson
#19. By letting go of the past with love and gratitude, I am creating beautiful memories, which are living in me, but I am living at present not in memories.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality.
Truth Devour
#21. Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.
Truth Devour
#22. Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
Shannon L. Alder
#23. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality ... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
#24. There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.
Rebecca Wells
#25. Wish for the best, prepare for the worst
Ary Hidayat
#26. Let go of yesterday, you made it! Don't use yesterday's state of mind to make today's decisions.
C. Nzingha Smith
#27. Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
#28. Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#29. Life is just like an ocean; we are moving without end. Nothing stays with us, what remains is just the memories of someone who touched us like waves.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
William Shakespeare
#31. Deprived of our memories we are deprived of our very selves. Without our histories we are vacated. We may walk and talk and eat and sleep but, in truth, we are nobody.
Mick Jackson
#32. How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.
Benjamin Zander
#33. We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#34. Memories of one's past are tainted. There are no truths to be found in them.
Morgan Rhodes
#35. When old friends reconnect, there is a refreshing newness, after great memories wash over you, the stage is set for so many more.
Tom Althouse
#36. You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart
your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.
Anne Lamott
#37. But my memories are like a fire in winter - whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.
- Ditta
Madeleine L'Engle
#38. Today's miseries could be tomorrow's loveful memories.
Debasish Mridha
#39. There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts ... memories can't be enough.
Eiry Nieves
#40. But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window -
A. Lee Martinez
#41. I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#42. We want to think that there's an inviolable continuity among old friends, a bond that cannot be fissured despite years of lassitude and neglect. We want to believe that there's truth and solace in our memories, that there's meaning and purpose to the things that have happened to us.
Don Lee
#43. What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us?
Terry Tempest Williams
#44. Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
Ajahn Chah
#45. Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#47. A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory,
where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.
Brunonia Barry
#48. Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
Colin Cotterill
#50. Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.
Daniel Kahneman
#51. Access to memories does not guarantee access to truth.
David Mitchell
#52. Village people had no central conception of truth or time or even of other people's memories; they always just played dumb when he told them they'd changed their stories
Karan Mahajan
#54. Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.
C. Kennedy
#55. Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world
Kim Stafford
#56. I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.
Tan Redding
#57. As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.
Crystal Woods
#58. Historians, only things of weight,
Results of persons, or affairs of State,
Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate;
Laconic shortness memory feeds.
James R. Heath
#59. Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.
Sheldon Lee Compton
#60. Memories are painful and beautiful; wisdom is wonderful. When I am living in the present moment, I use wisdom and enjoy the memories of the past.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Truth comes home to the mind so
naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more
than recall it to our memory.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#62. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?
Charlotte Eriksson
#63. Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.
Cheryl Strayed
#64. After all, what is truth but the consensus of memories of reliable witnesses?
K.J. Parker
#66. If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
Jesse Ventura
#67. History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore White
#68. Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now.
Ian C. Esslemont
#69. When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains.
P. Wish
#70. The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but also because it didn't follow the form of any essay that I've ever read. And the truth that I was exploring necessitated that obliteration of traditional form, I think.
Kiese Laymon
#71. You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.
Nikki Rowe
#72. Someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.
Sasa Stanisic
#73. It would be a safe place for the sharing of burdens and capturing memories before they disappeared. It would be called the Ministry of Stories and Truth and it would help her kingdom heal.
Kristin Cashore
#74. I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
Elia Suleiman
#75. But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.
Frederick Niecks
#76. Oh, there will still be deception. The fresh crew will emerge as adults, will have memories of past training and lives. Our stories, our lives, will go on. I refuse to allow that love to die, just because it was never real.
Greg Bear
#77. Some memories aren't meant to go down smoothly; they're meant to choke you until you suffocate.
Tali Alexander
#78. Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.
Hannah Arendt
#79. You can't buy memories. You make them.
Jury Nel
#80. The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love.
Debasish Mridha
#81. You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key.
Truth Devour
#83. Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.
Robin Wasserman
#84. Memory is the most potent truth.
Show me history untouched by memories
and you show me lies.
Carlos Eire
#85. Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way.
Debasish Mridha
#86. 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
#87. Create memories every day. You will grow a diamond on the way.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Okay, we didn't work, and all the memories to tell you the truth aren't good. But sometimes there were good times.
Junot Diaz
#90. Instead, the act of going back made new memories, and everytime I went I would add another layer on top of her memory, until eventually I'd buried them completely and all of those places stopped being about my past with her and became my present.
Cecelia Ahern
#91. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.
Robin Hobb
#92. Your own forefathers killed to have and hold the land where you were born, and sought to extinguish the memories and souls of those that were slain. What of those who prayed in the mountains of Appalachia for thousands of years? That to me is an abomination, although it is the way of men.
Bruce Lee Bond
#93. Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.
William Zinsser
#94. And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.
Sanhita Baruah
