You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
Death, Grief & CondolenceAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanSometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
MomentsTheodor Seuss GeiselThe best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.
Laughing & SmileUnknownThe truth is, it's all of your memories, the joyful ones and the heartbreaking ones, that make up who you are as a person.
J.D. in Scrubs, Season 6 Episode 11We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
Farewell & GoodbyePascal Mercier in Night Train to LisbonIf there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
LoyaltyWinnie-the-Pooh, by Winnie the PoohMusic is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
MusicSarah Dessen in Just ListenKids, you can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tight you hold on... it's already gone.
PastTed Mosby in How I Met Your Mother, Season 8 Episode 23The only reason we hold on memories so tight, is because memories won't change, when everything else does.
ChangeUnknownOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Death, Grief & Condolence, Day of the DeadGeorge EliotI mean, they say dou die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
Death, NamesBanksyToday's special moments are tomorrow's memories.
Aladdin, by Genie[Minuet of Forest]
The flow of time is always cruel. Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it. A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days.
Brom: "The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we want them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories. That which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented, yet treasure it, for without you it does not exist. I give you now a memory that has been forgotten, hidden in the dreamy haze that lies behind us."
Time, ForgettingChristopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - EragonWe learn more by remembering than forgetting.
Anthony E. Zuiker in Level 26 - Dunkle ProphezeiungYou only get healing by remembering.
Forgetting is just suppression.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver (Author)Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
EternitySarah Dessen in This LullabyWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen KellerSometimes, bitter memories become very sweet when you share them with a friend.
FriendshipDonna Paulsen in Suits, Season 4 Episode 2The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.
MomentsAlek Wek'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
Lewis Carroll in Alice in WonderlandThere's always happier days to remember. And the more f-cked up things are, the happier those days seem to be.
Tokyo in Money Heist, Season 4 Episode 2Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar WildeSo many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.
Sarah Dessen in Just ListenThe heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. And thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
PastGabriel Garcia Marquez in Love in the Time of CholeraMemory is everything. Without it we are blind. Without it we leave the fate of our world to chance.
Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts, 3: The Secrets of DumbledoreA memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de BonoI wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
YesterdayDavid Levithan in Every DayThe life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Death, Grief & Condolence, Day of the DeadMarcus Tullius CiceroThere is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Grief & Condolence, Sad QuotesAeschylusTo be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
Rosecrans BaldwinBut feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head
of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year
or what might have happend instead of what did happen
and if it is a happy picture they smile,
and if it is a sad picture they cry.
Memories. They remain raw... even longer than wounds.
Colum MacKenzie in Outlander, Season 2 Episode 12When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's TaleI like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
BooksEmma WatsonMy memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
Olivia Newton-JohnMemories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami in Kafka on the ShoreIt's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what helps to keep a family together over the long haul.
Family, ChristmasCaroline KennedyBecause no matter how my life has changed
I keep on looking back on better days
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Children & ChildhoodCharles R. SwindollMusic, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
MusicStevie Wonder