Memory Quotes

"Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us."

Seneca

"Death does not exist, daughter. People only die when we forget them."

Isabel Allende

"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

Jean Paul Richter

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility."

Buzz Aldrin

"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."

John Steinbeck

"To remember everything is a form of madness."

Brian Friel

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."

Haruki Murakami

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

Gabriel García Márquez

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

Milan Kundera

"I loved you; and perhaps I love you still, The flame, perhaps, is not extinguished yet."

Alexander Pushkin

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."

L. M. Montgomery

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

J. M. Barrie

"Last night, your lost memory came to my heart, like spring arriving quietly in a wilderness."

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

George Eliot

“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

“What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.”

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”

"The real war will never get in the books."

"Lest we forget."

Rudyard Kipling

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

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasant to remember even this."

Virgil

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."