Memories Sayings and Quotes

Memories encapsulate all of life’s experiences and moments. While we may wish for editing tools to erase the unpleasant and embarrassing ones, we cannot change the past. The good and the bad make up the memoirs of our lives. Below you’ll find a collection of wise, inspirational, and humorous quotes perfect for taking a stroll down memory lane.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. Tennesse Williams
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car. August Strindberg
Memory believes before knowing remembers. William Faulkner
The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. Vladimir Nabokov
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are. Alexander Mcccall Smith
Memories, memories / Sweet, sweet memories / Of days gone by / That make me cry Donald Baldwin
Toast to the ones that we lost on the way / 'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories / And the memories bring back, memories bring back you Jacob Hindlin
Don't feel bad 'cause honestly all the times that I had / Those will be the best memories Ronny Anderson
Now you're gone / They linger on, these memories / All these precious memories / Memories of you Van Morrison
Bitter memory, you're the thorn in my side / Bitter memory, you're the trouble on my mind / Find a new place to call home / You're not welcome anymore Lucinda Williams
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind / Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine Donald Baldwin
Like golden autumn leaves around my feet / I touched them and they burst apart with sweet memories / Sweet memories Donald Baldwin
Cause your memory greets me at the door / I go to bed to get away from my thoughts / But when I want to sleep, your memory just wants to talk / Don't your memory ever sleep at night? Randy Hatch
I'm still walkin' down memory lane / 'Cause I know I'll be runnin' into you / Reminiscin' through the pain / Recallin' things that we used to do Nasir Jones
Memories take you back / To the good times / When it's over / And the sad times disappear Bill Withers
What's done is done at the end of the day / But still, those memories remain James Edward Olliges Jr.
Burning memories / Teardrops fall while I am / Burning memories / Burning all the memories of you that I can't lose Mel Tillis
In the memory you'll find me / Eyes burning up / The darkness holding me tightly / Until the sun rises up Brad Delson
In my mind I can travel back in time / Relive the memories that kept my faith alive / In every heart there's a time machine Brian Hunter
If you believe in your memory / Trace every place you've been / You'll know what it means Brian Hunter
Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future. You can change things. You can make things better. Michael Mitnick
Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave. Chris Marker
The good memories. Those are the ones that hurt the most You know, I know it's hard to go some place which holds good memories Matthew Miller
Well, we could rebuild your memory based on what you already know. Repairing the break could also help ease your pain. Jerry Siegel
When a memory is gone, so is the soul, they say. Yeong-ha Kim
To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories at all. Stephen Sommers
We define our lives by our memories. Who we are on a particular day is the result of memories from every day before. Mike Vukadinovich
But memories are elastic, malleable, often mercurial things. I think of my own life, the sum of my memories. Mike Vukadinovich
Memory is the ultimate definer of our lives. For what are our lives, but a collection of memories... memories of events, experiences, emotions... all stamped onto our nervous systems, all leading to here and now, making us each the person we are today. Mike Vukadinovich