“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore tags: memories
6,487 people liked it like “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise tags: lost-innocence, memories
2,391 people liked it like “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― John Green, Paper Towns tags: memories
1,936 people liked it like “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
1,254 people liked it like “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― Haruki Murakami tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories
725 people liked it like “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
― T.S. Eliot tags: memories, truth, wishes
610 people liked it like “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 tags: belief, bravery, courage, depression, eating, exercise, food, future, life, living, love, loved-ones,medication, memories, reason, strength
518 people liked it like “He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera tags: memories
447 people liked it like “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”
― Alfred Tennyson tags: life, memories, poetry, sadness
387 people liked it like “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfeld tags: art, capture, fashion-designer, forever, gone, impossible, memories, memory, moment, photo,photography, reproduce, shoot
384 people liked it like “Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
― Ally Condie, First Day tags: allyson-braithwaite-condie, box, breakup, church, day, first, humor, lockup, love, memories, novel,pain, religion, romance
357 people liked it like “The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.”
― Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Save tags: bad, good, life, memories
329 people liked it like “Stephen kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.”
― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems tags: kiss, love, memories, poetry
277 people liked it like “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory,moving-on, past, reminiscence, roots, uncertainty
265 people liked it like “It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary tags: life, love, memories
260 people liked it like “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl tags: memories
248 people liked it like “Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath tags: memories
222 people liked it like “The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain.
No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net.
They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river.
Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.”
― Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day tags: memories, pablo-neruda, poetry
216 people liked it like “I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift tags: growing-up, life, memories, taylor-swift
211 people liked it like “When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”
― Sara Zarr tags: memories, remembrance, story-of-a-girl
192 people liked it like “Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead tags: bullets, memories, metaphor, pain
178 people liked it like “The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.”
― Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer tags: decisions, life, memories
167 people liked it like “Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. ”
― Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl tags: fear, memories
155 people liked it like “Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day tags: life, lose, memories, remember, share, tales
134 people liked it like “Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha tags: memories
133 people liked it like “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between tags: memories, past, reality
120 people liked it like “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
― Flannery O'Connor tags: memories
117 people liked it like “I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”
― Sophia Loren tags: memories, past, sophia-loren
115 people liked it like “Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.”
― Oscar Wilde tags: memories
112 people liked it like “Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed tags: memories
112 people liked it like “Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.”
― Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls tags: memories
100 people liked it like “Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding tags: experience, memories
99 people liked it like “Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy.

But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it.”
― Cameron Dokey, Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" tags: inspirational, memories
95 people liked it like “I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind tags: memories
88 people liked it like “People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood tags: death, memories
86 people liked it like “Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man tags: love, memories
84 people liked it like “In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation tags: depression, memories, suicide
78 people liked it like “Dream as if you have forever. Live as if you only have today.”
― James Dean tags: dream, dreamer, emotional, memories, timeless
77 people liked it like “Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.”
― Samuel Beckett tags: memories
73 people liked it like “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”
― Saul Bellow tags: memories
72 people liked it like “When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care tags: memories
71 people liked it like “We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology … But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore tags: memories
71 people liked it like “Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse tags: memories
67 people liked it like “People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― Stephen Carpenter, Killer tags: forgetting, forgotten, memories, memory, remembering, remembrance
67 people liked it like “The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe tags: memories
65 people liked it like “There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping tags: memories
62 people liked it like “In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: It's a Magical World tags: life, long-term, memories, regrets
58 people liked it like “There were some memories, though, that never faded.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones tags: memories
57 people liked it like “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box tags: childhood, christmasa, memories, smells
57 people liked it like “He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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