- I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative. Van Morrison
- “I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
- “Rare and precious moments, how I long to live with you eternally! If only your sweetness never ceased to touch my lips, and the flutters you evoke nevermore faded away. I dream of your arm extended immeasurably to keep hold of my reaching hand. But Father Time, being a cruel master, will not grant such a wish. And so I tuck you away as cherished memories, stored in a treasure box buried in my heart. And in times of solitude, I shall bring you out to view like rainbows.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
- “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
- Collect moments. Not things. Paulo Coelho
- “Keep your memories, and I will keep mine. And maybe one day they will fit together like our hands once did.” ― Giovannie de Sadeleer
- “El tiempo transcurre a hurtadillas, disimulando no le vemos andar. Pero de pronto volvemos la cabeza y encontramos imágenes que se han desplazado a nuestras espaldas, fotos fijas, sin referencia de fecha, como las figuras de los niños del escondite inglés, a los que nunca se pillaba en movimiento” ― Carmen Martín Gaite, El cuarto de atrás
- “Be what you must, because who you are is all of us.” ― Ross Caligiuri
- A mind is not alive when it is burdened with centuries of memory. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “I try to do something positive – I socialise more…But deep down I know the truth.An entire world of people can never replace the one that I’ve lost.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “Only In SleepOnly in sleep I see their faces,Children I played with when I was a child,Louise comes back with her brown hair braided,Annie with ringlets warm and wild.Only in sleep Time is forgotten –What may have come to them, who can know?Yet we played last night as long ago,And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair.The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces,I met their eyes and found them mild –Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,And for them am I too a child?” ― Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow
- When we listen to or experience something new our instinctive response is to compare it with the old, with past experience, with a fading memory. This comparing gives strength to the past, distorting the present, and so the new is ever becoming the past, the dead. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Time passes… but memories do not.” ― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses
- “Surrendering is not giving up–it is gaining strength.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
- Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. Carl Jung
- “Some songs can make you to travel a million miles inside your head” ― Pradeepa Pandiyan
- “Time Does Not Bring ReliefTime does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year’s bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide. There are a hundred places where I fear To go,—so with his memory they brim. And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, “There is no memory of him here!” And so stand stricken, so remembering him.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
- “No one can erase or steal those sweetest memories of love.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Remember me, even if it’s only in a corner and secretly. Don’t let me go.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
- “As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “You want it or not but with time, memories are going to fade. Wounds will be healed and life will give you plenty opportunities to be happy.” ― Nitya Prakash
- “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.Some people might find that strange.But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it. Edward De Bono
- “You will know that this life is not just about you but about all the people who have touched your life.” ― Darice Cairns, The Art of Finding Truth: One Man’s Journey Through Love, Life, Grief and Joy
- “That’s what life is for: warm friendships, memorable moments, and beautiful words.” ― Avijeet Das
- “They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, ‘Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.’ And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn’t like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand’s arm: ‘Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.’ It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don’t like cherries.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
- “It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….….. and you’ll erase me completely.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- Memory is fiction. Kamal Ravikant