Memory Quotes

"A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it."

"What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us."

"My memories of events and games are fragmented."

"I'd like to think I have good recall of games I've been a part of and plays I've been a part of."

"Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory."

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L. P. Hartley

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

William Faulkner

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."

Marcel Proust

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."

Marcel Proust

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

Cesare Pavese

"A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again."

Ryszard Kapuściński

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

Homer

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to remember even these things."

Virgil

"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

Elie Wiesel

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

George Eliot

"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."

Sappho

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

Lionel Hampton

"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

Alfred Mercier

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

Aeschylus

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

Cicero

"What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

William Wordsworth