Quotes About Memories

Siempre hemos vivido para crear buenos recuerdos, no para olvidar. Toda cultura se basa en la conservación y la búsqueda de recuerdos del pasado y, al mismo tiempo, en la creación de nuevos recuerdos. El arte mira hacia atrás y hacia delante.

La vida es un viaje tumultuoso entre lo que nos causa miedo y lo que nos da alegría. En el mejor de los casos logramos atesorar buenos recuerdos a lo largo de ella. Por más que, en nuestro mundo, sean demasiadas las personas que se ven obligadas a olvidar para vivir.

the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.

De repente notó que la vieja confianza que los unía cuando eran niños había desaparecido.

The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old.

There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

Everybody had within himself a secret room, it seemed to him, where memories and recollections were all jumbled up together.

My grandfather had dominated my childhood out on the island, but my grandmother had been there too, providing the security I didn't recognise or value until I was an adult.

I couldn't for the life of me understand why I should stop communicating with old friends just because they were dead.

Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.

Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives, all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while we were here.

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong.

By the time she had grown sharper,..., she found in her mind a collection of images and echoes to which meanings were attachable- images and echoes kept for her in the childish dusk, the dim closet, the high drawers, like games she wasn't big enough to play.

He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few of them--which at the moment of their coming to him had thrilled him almost like adventures.

I like places in which things have happened — even if they're sad things.

Life is all a green old English garden and time an endless summer afternoon.

Mi piacciono i luoghi dove sono avvenute molte cose... anche tristi. Molte persone sono morte qui; era un luogo pieno di vita." ââ'¬Å"È questo che tu chiami pieno di vita?" "Voglio dire pieno di esperienze... di sentimenti e di dolori... E non solo di on solo di dolori, perché io sono stata molto felice, qui, da bambina.

There seemed to Isabel in these days something sacred in Gardencourt; no chapter of the past was more perfectly irrecoverable. When she thought of the months she had spent there the tears rose to her eyes.

She sometimes felt a sort of passion of tenderness for memories which had led no other merit than that they belonged to her unmarried life.

se guardo indietro, mi pare che tutto sia stato pura sofferenza.

What had come to pass within his walls lingered there as an obsession importunate to all his senses; it lived again, as a cluster of pleasant memories, at every hour and in every object; it made everything but itself irrelevant and tasteless. It remained, in a word, a conscious watchful presence, active on its own side, forever to be reckoned with, in face of which the effort at detachment was scarcely less futile than frivolous.

At present, with her sense that the note of change had been struck, came gradually a host of images of the things she was leaving behind her.

The vanity of women had long memories, but she was making no claim on him of a compliment or a mistake.

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me hack again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.