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Memory Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “It seemed to me both that I had known her for a long time and that I had known nothing and had not lived before she came.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Transformation, Memory, Connection, Awakening

2. “In losing his past, he lost everything.”

Ivan Turgenev

Memory, Loss, Past, Identity, Emptiness

3. “I had no first love,′ he said at last; ‘I began with the second.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Memory, Regret, Beginnings, Reflection

4. “The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?”

Ivan Turgenev

Past, Memory, Illusion, Dreams, Time

5. “I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.”

Ivan Turgenev

Memory, Pain, Experience, Growth, Reflection

6. “Now, when the shades of evening begin to steal over my life, what have I left fresher, more precious, than the memories of the storm – so soon over – of early morning, of spring?”

Ivan Turgenev

Aging, Memory, Nostalgia, Youth, Passing Time

7. “So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal...”

Ivan Turgenev

Emptiness, Memory, Life’s Journey, Futility, Reflection

8. “My first love, certainly, was not quite an ordinary one.”

Ivan Turgenev

First Love, Uniqueness, Memory, Romance, Nostalgia

9. “In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Irony, Romance, Memory, Emotion

10. “Sometimes little things happen which seem nothing at all, but they hurt.”

Ivan Turgenev

Pain, Emotion, Details, Memory, Sensitivity

11. “Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna’s estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.”

Ivan Turgenev

Time, Decay, Stillness, Nature, Memory

12. “What did I want to say to you? That I loved you? There was a time when the phrase ‘I love’ had for me no meaning; and now it will have less than ever, seeing that love is a form, and that my particular embodiment of it is fast lapsing towards dissolution.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Emotion, Disillusion, Memory, Identity

13. “The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead is the nasty things I’ve said about them.”

Camille Paglia

Enemies, Legacy, Revenge, Memory, Conflict

14. “We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.”

Charles Lamb

Memory, Reflection, Dreams, Nostalgia, Imagination

15. “We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.”

Charles Lamb

Taste, Habit, Memory, Perception, Experience

16. “Presents, I often say, endear absents.”

Charles Lamb

Gifts, Memory, Love, Connection, Distance

17. “Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!”

Charles Lamb

Memory, Home, Nostalgia, Music, Emotion

18. “All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Nostalgia, Memory, Time, Reflection

19. “How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Memory, Nostalgia, Friendship, Reflection

20. “Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour’d his relics are laid.”

Charles Lamb

Silence, Memory, Honor, Loss, Reflection

21. “I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Nostalgia, Childhood, Friendship, Loss, Memory

22. “Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o’er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o’er sea or land we roam?”

Charles Lamb

Home, Nostalgia, Distance, Emotion, Memory

23. “To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph—mere stops.”

Margaret Fuller

Experience, Memory, Reflection, Writing, Perception

24. “I had amnesia once or twice.”

Steven Wright

Memory, Amnesia, Forgetfulness, Humor, Irony

25. “Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.”

Steven Wright

Memory, Deja Vu, Amnesia, Thinking, Humor

26. “When I was five years old I was on a merry-go-round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.”

Steven Wright

Childhood, Imagination, Humor, Absurdity, Memory