- The past is always tense, the future perfect. Zadie Smith
- “It frightens me that I can’t do anything sensible about it.””Are you scared that you’ll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?””I’m more scared that I’ll forget the feeling I have now.””Kind of like how you forgot how it feels to be three years old.””That surely I’ll wind up thinking I was so young, I didn’t really understand everything. It bothers me that I know I will be wrong.” ― Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits
- “The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.” ― Anna Quindlen, Loud and Clear
- Remembering is easy. It’s forgetting that’s hard. Brodi Ashton
- “I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again – I still could hardly believe it was true.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “We can harness positive power by remembering.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
- Past is a fiction. You can’t go back. All that remains is a hazy interpretation of a hazy memory. Naval Ravikant
- “We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.” ― Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem
- Getting caught up in memories of the past or worrying about the future is a form of self-imposed suffering. Ram Dass
- “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
- “Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.” ― J.P. Donleavy
- “You live not in flesh and blood but in memories.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society
- Our memories are not in our things. Our memories are in us. Joshua Fields Millburn
- “It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
- Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. Paulo Coelho
- Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. Stevie Wonder
- “Your memories are just a backstory required for you to act out the present scene.” ― Shunya
- Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. Alice Morse Earle
- The past beats inside me like a second heart. John Banville
- “I wish I hadn’t met you in the rain: it comes every winter.I wish you hadn’t told me your favorite wine: I’ve become a drinker.I wish I never showed you my hidden birthmark:It looks back at me at night asking where you are.I wish I hadn’t read you my journal, all the pages praising you,It’s corrupted now that I can’t tell if I write for me or you.I wish I hadn’t told you my daily routine: it’s not mine anymore.I can’t enjoy 11:11, my favorite song, a birthday cake, or a concert tour.I’m not afraid of the future, it’s the past that takes a while.” ― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?
- People who know nothing about nature are, of course, neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Amazon book)
- “Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you’ve touched.” ― Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep
- You can predict a lot about a society by seeing their obsession on nostalgia in comparison to their curiosity for future. Kunal Shah
- “The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.” ― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
- “The memories of beautiful moments are magical.” ― Giovannie de Sadeleer
- “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.
- “Many times, we give beautiful names to our miseries and catastrophes. And that’s how we lock down the memories inside us, from which we always want to escape.” ― Akshay Vasu, Between the Abyss and Paradise
- All that is left will be memories, and eventually they, too, will vanish like dust. Haruki Murakami
- Memory has a place at a certain level. In everyday life we could not function without it. In its own field it must be efficient but there is a state of mind where it has very little place. A mind which is not crippled by memory has real freedom. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “I need a name for this ink … A name for the feeling you get when you see someone again. After many years. Someone lost to you. Or so you thought. And you remember them a certain way. In your mind, they never age. But then suddenly, there they are. Older. Changed by time. Different, but exactly the same.” ― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister