Top 93 Memory Moments Quotes
#1. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.
Oscar Wilde
#2. It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
Anthony Marais
#4. Why was it that a person could forget a thousand moments over a lifetime but never purge the one memory she truly wanted to forget?
Melissa Tagg
#5. Japan. Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if I come home and you're still pining over this little girl without having given her a chance, I will call you a chicken shit for the rest of your life.
Melina Marchetta
#6. I live for the moments that won't die in my memory.
Jenim Dibie
#7. The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.
Leonard Jacobson
#8. I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life?
Kate McCafferty
#9. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.
James Joyce
#10. When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it all in inside me. Contain everything in some corner of my heart so that when I had my shot, it could all come pouring out - all the lights and moments and colour.
Brenna Ehrlich
#11. These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.
Nathan Filer
#12. The first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the day before.
Sarah Ockler
#14. Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.
Molly Friedenfeld
#16. She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.
Jennifer E. Smith
#17. A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..
James Joyce
#18. Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man's memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.
Mark Lawrence
#19. There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
Colum McCann
#20. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
Leonard Nimoy
#21. There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.
Karen Joy Fowler
#22. The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable
Vince Lombardi
#23. I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws
Alex Gaskarth
#24. And I knew this would be one of those flashes, one of those moments burned into my memory, and even possibly, the last one I'd ever get. "Lia,
Mia Sheridan
#25. Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#26. Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.
Melina Marchetta
#27. Enjoy the little moments, you know, those ones where you feel like screaming "I love life," from the highest mountain knowing that it will be a treasured memory...
Virginia Alison
#28. Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.
Rachel Nichols
#29. 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
#30. Like the tender fire of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory. He longed to recall to her those moments, to make her forget the years of their dull existence together and remember only their moments of ecstasy.
James Joyce
#31. He couldn't remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him.
Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were just a man.
He had lived on those moments ever since, pulled them to the fore when loneliness threatened to suck him down and drown him
Kristen Callihan
#32. I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.
Jane Smiley
#33. A moment can be left inside the memory of time.
Munia Khan
#34. I'd give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could keep it safe always. Where even time couldn't erase it.
Jessi Kirby
#35. We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Georges Duhamel
#36. From one moment to another memory steps back to rediscover the past
Munia Khan
#37. Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.
Ali Smith
#38. I am thinking of those strange moments when unexpectedly a kind of second sight like a deceptive memory seems suddenly to give us glimpses of many earlier lives.
Erich Maria Remarque
#39. It is easy to miss the possibility that every person who crosses your path can become an event and a memory, good or bad, to fill in the hours with experience instead of tedium, to break the monotony of the passing moments.
R.A. Salvatore
#40. We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.
Liane Moriarty
#42. Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How ... can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?
Carol Anshaw
#43. He liked the fragility of those moments
suspended in time. Those memories
whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.
Chris Marker
#44. I kissed my fingers,held my palm flat beside my mouth and blew it into the air that surrounded her memory. I closed my eyes, thinking this was one of those moments you see in movies or read about in books where everything comes together.
Belinda Jeffrey
#45. The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
Marcel Proust
#46. Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.
Hilary Mantel
#47. Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
Todd Haynes
#48. If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
Jojo Moyes
#50. We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.
Melissa Thayer
#51. It's not easy. It's never easy. Love isn't easy. But you carry the memory of those happy times with you and those moments remind you of the beauty of life.
T.K. Leigh
#52. Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.
Alex George
#53. What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
T. S. Eliot
#54. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.
David Baldacci
#56. Sometimes, the smallest moments in your life have the greatest impact. They soar straight into a place deep inside you, and resonate with the very core of your heart, sinking deep into your memory, to remind you later, that life and love can bring you magic you didn't know existed.
Angela Richardson
#57. He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The recollection of moments often proved richer than the moment themselves.
Dennis Lehane
#58. Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.
Amitav Ghosh
#59. Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.
Conn Iggulden
#60. These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.
Francesca Marciano
#61. You go to grab your moments and squeeze them dry. Enjoy them while you're having them. Then remember and enjoy them all over again in your memory. And try to have more good ones than bad ones - - or at least remember more of the good ones.
Jean Ferris
#62. Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
Galen Rowell
#63. The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
Boris Pasternak
#64. The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#65. Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?
J. Limbu
#66. Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory,
James Lee Burke
#67. Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.
Kirby Wright
#68. When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.
Jeffrey Panzer
#70. My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.
Nigel Barker
#71. The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together ... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.
Brian Morton
#72. He had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.
Paul Auster
#73. That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.
Damon Galgut
#74. Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew. - Sophie and Gideon Lightwood
Cassandra Clare
#75. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
Elena Ferrante
#76. History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.
Anne Michaels
#77. If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself...
Luigina Sgarro
#78. Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.
Craig Lancaster
#79. Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.
James Anderson
#80. Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
James Joyce
#81. Her official published findings were that memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain.
Jodi Picoult
#82. No two moments are identical in a conscious being
Henri Bergson
#83. At odd moments she may fret over a blank in her memory, but soon a Pied Piper thought will come dancing along and her untrained mind will follow ...
David Mitchell
#84. These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.
Lawrence Durrell
#85. Moments spent in idleness were moments left to thought. Moments left to memory.
Renee Ahdieh
#86. That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.
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John Green
#87. Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
Ann Druyan
#88. Moments go by in your life, becoming memories, and once the people who were apart of them are gone, so is the magic of the memory. A memory once told with laughter or detail, fades into a story long forgotten, like an ancestor remembered only by name.
Erin Waters
#89. The next morning I woke, and for a few moments I didn't know where I was. Then my memory of the night came back to me, and anger tightened my stomach, invigorating me.
Hannah Kent
#90. Men are born with a great asset of weak memory, especially for the bad moments. It's not the same with women though. Good or bad, they would keep the memories intact like permanent data in ROM.
Mita Jain
#91. It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)
Bill Bernico
#92. I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.
Marc Maron
#93. Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
Paulo Coelho
