Top 100 Our Memories Quotes
#1. We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our memories close. We would fight for each other, again and again. We would keep living. We were in love.
And we were only human, after all.
Jocelyn Davies
#2. Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
Damian Loeb
#3. What are we, after all, without our memories ... without our dreams?
Nicholas Sparks
#4. Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.
Deepak Chopra
#5. Our memories, those precious moments that shape our lives and makes us who we are. Our friends, our families, and all the special things we hold close to our hearts. Those are the things that can never be replaced
Virginia McKevitt
#6. The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.
David Kudler
#7. I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.
Rick Smolan
#8. Time is merely a feature of our memories and expectations.
Avicenna
#9. What are our memories but the ultimate proof that we exist?
Rick Yancey
#10. The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever.
Nelson DeMille
#11. We are our stories - dozens, hundreds, thousands of them - sprayed across our memories, embedded in our identity. Calling them up for others or for ourselves or for God, can enlighten, crush, amuse, trap, or free us, depending on how we pay attention.
Emma Lou Warner Thayne
#12. We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.
Paulo Coelho
#13. These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered by time and regret.
Jess Walter
#14. Our memories do not visit us in chronology, and the story we form by joining up the memories involves choices with the purpose of making a whole and finding a pattern.
Zia Haider Rahman
#15. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
S.J. Watson
#16. We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.
Brian Falkner
#17. In the summer, we write life's summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.
Debasish Mridha
#18. We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.
Danielle Ganek
#19. We can not tell what can happen in a minute.
How fragile is our life.
Soon we are gone and forgotten.
But our memories lives on.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. And when the twilight of that ride is finally upon us, we will look at the trail we have taken and at the signs of our passage. And though our tears will be many, we will know that great lives have been lived, and that our memories will forever bind us together.
John Shors
#21. Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
John Green
#22. We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
Paulo Coelho
#23. The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.
Neil Gaiman
#24. We were solitary and apart. Slept during the day, uncurled at dusk like evening primroses; fragrant and lush. We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears. We didn't keep in touch. Somewhere, though, our memories had.
Sarah Winman
#25. Once in a while, our thoughts drift and fade, back into the recessed hiding places where our memories are stored. At times we recall them- the memories of our loves, our youths, our life experiences. These dreams appear to us, and for seconds, minutes, or hours we are there once again.
James Michael Pratt
#26. Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.
Joan Lowery Nixon
#28. My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it in the drawers of our minds.
Anna Quindlen
#29. Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
Clive Thompson
#30. Drift House: Susan's response to Queen Octavia's sarcasm in regards to fading memories ... "But we pass our memories on," she insisted. "I mean, from one generation to the next. Parents teach their children. They write things down, tell them stories
Dale Peck
#31. We are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences
Michael Scott
#32. The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of out lives. Mt. Rainier does not exist under our feet. Mt. Rainier lives in our minds
Bruce Barcott
#33. We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.
Michael Scott
#34. All our failures makes us change our lives, but our changes will always be in our memories.
Jim Jensen
#35. Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.
Aaron Starmer
#36. Where we must go will all mysteries be untold: and on passing from this day what new sea our memories hold...
Franco Esposito
#37. Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
Marcel Proust
#39. The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!
Eugene O'Neill
#40. She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
Tony Blair
#41. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#42. We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.
Joshua Foer
#43. To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.
Joshua Foer
#44. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
Graham Swift
#45. Our memories, too, blend the immediate past with the anticipation of the soon to be, and a living amalgam of these - not some infinitesimal pointlike instant forever fleeing out of reach - is our now.
James Gleick
#46. Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.
Kay Boyle
#47. No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Aminatta Forna
#48. What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
Nicholas Sparks
#49. Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.
Joe R. Lansdale
#50. Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Jesse Jackson
#52. We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.
Joan Oliver Goldsmith
#53. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.
Gaston Bachelard
#54. When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.
Deepak Chopra
#55. There simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.
Jonah Lehrer
#56. The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.
Orhan Pamuk
#57. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
Thomas Browne
#59. Our connection to the teachings of Socrates, for instance, is through the written word of Plato, because Socrates was vehemently against the written word. Socrates thought that the book would do terrible things to our memories.
Clay A. Johnson
#61. She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
Graham Greene
#62. We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
David Seamands
#64. I believe ... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
William Butler Yeats
#65. People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we've lived; they're the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments.
Ted Chiang
#66. Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen like on a postcard or a calendar. The colours will end up disappearing, fading. They're forbidden to our memories and our words.
Delphine De Vigan
#67. Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly.
Michelle Stuart
#68. Nothing can take away our memories or what we know.
Mel Daniels
#69. Are we not all shaped by our experiences? Are we not the sum of our memories? The sages of the dwarves say that just as the thousand blows of a hammer shape a blade, so to do the thousand experiences of a man shape him.
Jonathan Moeller
#70. How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted to the same person?
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#71. Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.
Jed Rubenfeld
#72. Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.
Michael Bassey
#73. Gaza Writes Back' provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling stories shapes our memories.
Refaat Alareer
#74. It's not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.
Karen White
#75. No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
Anne Rice
#76. Right now each of us is a private oral culture. We rewrite our pasts to suit our needs and support the story we tell about ourselves. With our memories we are all guilty of a Whig interpretation of our personal histories, seeing our former selves as steps toward our glorious present selves.
Ted Chiang
#77. We have the ability to pass our memories on. We just have to tell them to someone.
Sarah Ockler
#78. I never showed up in her dreams, I am certain, as people we keep in our memories rarely have a place for us in theirs.
Yiyun Li
#79. A dream is a slippery thing, plucking and bending and toying with our memories, sometimes acting as a bridge between the living, the loved, and the loved no-longer-living, but more often than not acting as a lesson not quite learned.
Scott Wilbanks
#80. As a general principle, if we would exercise our memories more wisely, we might, in our very darkest distress, strike a match which would instantaneously kindle the lamp of comfort.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. Freedom may come not from being in control of life but rather from a willingness to move with the events of life, to hold on to our memories but let go of the past, to choose, when necessary, the inevitable. We can become free at any time.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#82. These are hard and uncertain times we're living in," he said. "You never know what will still be here tomorrow. That's why we must take joy every day in what we do have, so it's something we can carry in our memories when things change.
Jaye L. Knight
#83. Our consciences are not all of the same pattern, an inner deliverance of fixed laws: they are the voice of sensibilities as various as our memories.
George Eliot
#85. Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.
Deepak Chopra
#86. Our memories are not simply faulty; they are faulty in favor of our ego.
John Ortberg
#87. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be,
Brian Freeman
#88. We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.
Willard Gaylin
#89. Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift.
Angelica Hopes
#90. The day our memories become larger than our dreams is the day our soul begins to shrink. - IKE REIGHARD
Zig Ziglar
#91. In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
Anthony Doerr
#92. People who aren't capable of harboring our memories with integrity, shouldn't be allowed them in the first place.
Kim Holden
#93. The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.
Steven Pinker
#94. Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter
#95. We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.
Beth Revis
#96. 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
#97. Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. If we knew we could carry our memories to wherever we go next, then there would be nothing to fear. It's just the thought that all this life might be forgotten totally, that's what frighten me
J. David Simons
#99. But any Time is with us. And if we take control to shape our attitude and reshape our memories, that time is always now, - our time for the best possible uses of our lives.
Keorapetse Kgositsile
#100. Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.
Fennel Hudson
