Memory Quotes

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.  ~Edward de Bono

Memory is a child walking along a seashore.  You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.  ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.  ~Josh Billings

The past is never dead, it is not even past.  ~William Faulkner

To live in hearts we leave behind

Is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.  ~Seneca

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ~ Jeremy Irons

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. ~ Lewis B. Smedes

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us. ~ David Seamands

You never know when you're making a memory. ~ Rickie Lee Jones

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
~Witter Bynner, "Coins"