23 Best Memory Quotes To Motivate You

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Are you looking for some best memory quotes? Stay motivated with the help of the below quotes about memory.

Best Quotes About Memory

1. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” ― Haruki Murakami

2. “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3. “The town was paper, but the memories were not.” ― John Green

4. “We all have our time machines, don’t we? Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.” ― H.G. Wells

5. “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” ― Guy de Maupassant

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6. “There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.” ― John Boyne

7. “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro

8. “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ― Roy T. Bennett

9. “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

10. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown

11. “Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies…” ― Eileen Chang

12. “We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” ― Cassandra Clare

13. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

14. “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.” ― Mark Twain

15. “Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?” ― Judith McNaught

16. “Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to.” ― José Luís Peixoto

17. “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

18. “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” ― Antonio Porchia

19. “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

20. “Memory is more indelible than ink.” ― Anita Loos

21. “My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.” ― Yōko Ogawa

22. “Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.” ― A.J. Darkholme

23. “So many memories roll through me and I realize that this is who we are: memories and shared experiences. This is what ties us all together.” ― Carrie Ryan

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