- Ruminating on the past is largely a waste of time. It’s illusory. Naval Ravikant
- “Your identity is no more than the memory of your mind, and the time you learn to consciously look into your memories of the past, the first time you realize that nowhere you exist in your mind.” ― Roshan Sharma
- “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
- “Do you think that every time we meet a person we should treat it like it was the last time we ever were going to see them?” ― Rutu Modan, Exit Wounds
- “The god of art neither has religion nor gender or color or any shape. All he does is sit inside me and smile every time I look inside myself and ask him a question. A smile that resembles a silver lining on the darkest cloud. A smile that cuts me off from my reality and throws me into infinity and beyond. At that moment, all I can feel is floating in a place that doesn’t have gravity and looking at the memories of the people who have asked him the same questions before.” ― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
- “Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.” ― Ross Caligiuri
- “Nothing could persuade me that “in the image of God” applied only to man. In fact it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than men with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism -” ― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- “art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They’re like weeds, always finding their way up.” ― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- “He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have…” ― Ranata Suzuki
- All memories are trivia. Kathy Acker
- “You made me feel worthwhile…. like for once it mattered if I was here or not because I actually meant something to someone…. because I meant something to you. I miss that feeling.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- Collect moments. Not things. Paulo Coelho
- “The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- “A Hard Life With MemoryI’m a poor audience for my memory.She wants me to attend her voice nonstop,but I fidget, fuss,listen and don’t,step out, come back, then leave again.She wants all my time and attention.She’s got no problem when I sleep.The day’s a different matter, which upsets her.She thrusts old letters, snapshots at me eagerly,stirs up events both important and un-,turns my eyes to overlooked views,peoples them with my dead.In her stories I’m always younger.Which is nice, but why always the same story.Every mirror holds different news for me.She gets angry when I shrug my shoulders.And takes revenge by hauling out old errors,weighty, but easily forgotten.Looks into my eyes, checks my reaction.Then comforts me, it could be worse.She wants me to live only for her and with her.Ideally in a dark, locked room,but my plans still feature today’s sun,clouds in progress, ongoing roads.At times I get fed up with her.I suggest a separation. From now to eternity.Then she smiles at me with pity,since she knows it would be the end of me too.” ― Wisława Szymborska, Here
- “Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Memories are powerful- whether filled with peace or turbulence.” ― Chaker Khazaal, Ouch!: A memoir with a twist…
- Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place. Marcel Proust
- We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese
- Our reality is an infinite battle between what happened and what we want to remember. Haruki Murakami
- “Surrendering is not giving up–it is gaining strength.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
- “If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it.You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.How can you?He has it.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and future are not as real, but more real than the present. Alan Watts
- “I am filled time and againwith a heart-aching wonder when I thinkof the fireand frost of memoriesof the everlastingnessof lovethe solace of familyand the power of prayer.” ― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
- “Dreams often show us what the subconscious is keeping in our memories.” ― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, The Guardian Spirit
- The saddest part of life is when the person who gave you the best memories becomes the memory. Unknown
- “What he knows is this: there is no past, there is no “what happened”, there is only the moment that unfolds into the next, dragging everything with it, constantly renewing. Everything is happening at once.” ― Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
- “Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Most of what you suffer has already passed. Let it go.” ― Meeta Ahluwalia
- “Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn’t even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.” ― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.