M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Memories are doing funny things to us.”
“Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window”
“Memories are fragile, you try to grab them and they skitter away in various directions. Trying to gather them together to write them out is difficult, they resist, get clouded and escape as wisps of smoke. Nothing seems as crystal clear as it once was, a milky film of opacity envelopes everything. Odd details stand out in one’s mind, not a continuum. A fragrance, an odour, the smell of toast burning perhaps or whiff of jasmine, a shade of pink, a flower pressed between the pages of a book, brings on a sharp burst of memories that drown you with their immediacy.”
Source: The Face At the Window
“Memories are full of mindful thoughts.”
“Memories are funny things,” Mrs. Darby pressed on. “They are fickle creatures, constantly changing. Every time we look back on a memory, it has changed, it is never the same as how it was when we made the memory. How could it be? Because every time we look back, we too have changed. We have collected new experiences, new opinions, new pains. You aren’t looking back on them with the same eyes.”
“Nostalgia is not like it used to be,” Danny quipped, and was pleased with himself that he drew a laugh out of her.”
Source: Dysfunction
“Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.”
“Memories are immortal. They're deathless and precise. They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that's based more in other people's tucked-up perceptions than truth.”
Source: Finding Me
“Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.”
“Memories are just stories we tell ourselves, after all. What if we are telling ourselves lies?
I don't know.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“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.”
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
“Memories are less tangible than dreams.”
Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“Memories are like dust—one small gust, and they rise, filling the air with emotions long buried.”
“Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.”
Source: Overqualified
“Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.”
“Memories are like ghosts; they come out only by tearing you apart”
“Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.”
“Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.”
“Memories are like moonbeams; we do with them what we want.”
“Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.”
“Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.”
Source: Three plays
“Memories are like water.”
“Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”
“Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.”
“Memories are meaningless without emotion, and aside from love and drugs, nothing spurs an emotional reaction like music.”
Source: Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers
“Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.”
“Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Memories are never entirely silent. They murmur in your cells, shadow the mind, knock at the door.”
Source: We Have Shadows Too
“Memories are nice, but dreams are better.”
“Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.”
Source: Partners
“Memories are not always a prison -
sometimes they can be a key too.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“Memories are not always the best measure of things.”
Source: The Orchard of Hope
“Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.”
“Memories are not made by standing still.”
“Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.”
“Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.”
“Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow.”
Source: Five Somewhat Historical Plays
“Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.”
“Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.”
“Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.”
“Memories are precious gifts, draga. You own them, all of them, good and bad. They become part of you. Nobody can ever take them away. Someday you’ll know what I mean.”
Source: One Degree of Freedom
“Memories are priceless.”
“Memories are recordings, felt emotions echoed and etched as they are mirrored across time on our mind.”
“Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear.”
“Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.”
“Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Memories are so strange. It makes joyful to miserable and inconsolable to cheerful.”
“Memories are so two-faced.
One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.”
Source: Tomorrow River
“Memories are souvenirs of happiness and invisible scars... for a lifetime.”
“Memories are stiff, but thoughts are freer things. They throw out roots, they spread and tangle, and come untethered from their source. They are clever, and stubborn, and perhaps–perhaps–they are in reach.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue