Memory Quotes and Sayings
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
- William Faulkner
I wish to be, who I used to be.
You can destroy the evidence, but you cant destroy the memories.
A memory rarely fades when one stops to think.
- M. J. Lane
Memory is each man’s own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
- William Least Heat-Moon
I love those random memories that make me smile no matter what is going on in my life now.
When all is lost, there is still a memory.
- Dejan Stojanovic
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
- John Henry Newman
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
- Sara Zarr
Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.
- Julian Barnes
I can feel the hurt. There’s something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.
- Albert Borris
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
- Terry Pratchett
Things die. But they don’t always stay dead. Believe me, I know.
- Richelle Mead
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
- Rob Sheffield
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep the time between good memories short for all that keep you in their company.
It kills me every time I think about how you’ll never remember what I’ll never forget.