Home / Topics / Memories Quotes

Memories Quotes

Browse 7719 quotes about Memories.

Memories Quotes

“For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.”

Men Young Night Next Memories Sleep Answers Morning Sun Horror Messages Awakening Clarity Young Man Why Not Distress Vague Hideous Procession

Book:Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story

Source: Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story

“My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like it stretched a mile long, and I loved sitting in the sun while she hung clothes.”

Long Mother Memories Sun Childhood Fronts Clothes Sitting Miles Hung Backyards Childhood Memories Clotheslines

Book:Traci Lords: Underneath It All

Source: Traci Lords: Underneath It All

“The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.”

“My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.”

Feels Beautiful Memories Cities Sun Wonderful Childhood Grew Grew Up Filled Beach Privileged Coast Eastern Beautiful City Wonderful Memories

Author:Luca Parmitano

“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”

“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.”

Memories Pleasure Animal Levels Sun Blood Taste Draws Cruelty Instant Leap Prey Marrow

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.”

Giving Light Stars Understanding Memories Sun Planets Moon Wander Fixed Firmament Meteors

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.”

Ifs Moments Memories Perfect Sun Shapes Flash Live In The Moment Perfect Moments

Book:Lavender and Old Lace

Source: Lavender and Old Lace

“I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed.”

“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.”

Source: Scepticism and Animal Faith

“I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.”

Littles Made Light Joy Night Lost Challenges Memories Morning Darkness Sun Violence Noise Hills Climbing Rays Retiring Climbing Up

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and leaves it, when love has gone, a shred, a simulacrum - dross, to be swept up from the factory floor, pitiful and dusty, useless... Do all men and women feel love before they die? This force, this source of light, that lies before the sun; glances off mountains and lakes, blinding and dazzling, on a Sunday afternoon; so brilliant you have to guard your soul, fold your arms to shield your heart from the very memory of it.”

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Source: Salmagundi