- “Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- We’re not friends. We’re strangers with memories. Unknown
- “Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.” ― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
- “I firmly believe that life is made up of moments. Some are significant, and some are disposable. Some sit at the edge of your awareness and taunt you when you’re trying to sleep, and others fade into the background noise of life. But every moment, no matter how small, has the potential to create or destroy you.” ― Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
- “Find your bones. Believe in what you are.” ― Grace Sara
- “The storms inside uncoilinto sky held calm by far seeing eyesMemories dressed in the translucenttrickery of the mind,so as to wear life upon themselves,give up their tired dance and runinto free frequency” ― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides
- “Those who live in memories are never really dead.” ― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton
- “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
- Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. Richard Kadrey
- “You were the ocean and we were the land You lay down unflinching You lay down forgetting And you were the ocean and we were the land” ― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides
- “Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.” ― Michael Poeltl
- “The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes.Breathing your air…. touching your skin…… Saying goodbye….The last time I felt alive…. I was dying.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- The past was almost always worse, and the future has risk of catastrophic failure. What’s wrong with the present? Naval Ravikant (The question was “If you had a time machine would you consider travel and where would that be?”)
- “You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- Changing your interpretation of your past is often just as good as changing your past. Naval Ravikant
- “The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we’ve never accomplished before. What we’ve done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.” ― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- “Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.” ― norman doidge, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
- “If life is a question, love is the answer.” ― Giovannie de Sadeleer
- “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
- “A pure white puppy followed on the girl’s heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.” ― Kit Alloway, Dreamfever
- “Cassandra wondered at the mind’s cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life’s end, her grandmother’s head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death’s silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?” ― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
- No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. Haruki Murakami
- “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
- “Here we go,” Phoenix said, turning back to Nora. “Try not to let this room scare you.” ― Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows
- “Your memories are just a backstory required for you to act out the present scene.” ― Shunya
- “To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.” ― Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows
- “There’s something about a place you’ve been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone… they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
- “There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
- “Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence
- “Eleanor had heard talk of the rebellion that existed inside the city of Constance before. Most of the information she gathered was considered an old fairy tale by the general public. There were a few stories here and there about people angered by their present living conditions, who had demanded that the center of Constance be held responsible for it. However, information was never passed between the five different sectors. Over the years the tales of the rebellion had become children’s bedtime stories, and people did not take them seriously.” ― Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows