“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“But things in the past are like a plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Acting young ain't what keeps you young, but if you have some memories—some good memories—of when you were young, that's what keeps you young.”— A.J. Russell, Herbert Finn, Ralph Kramden, Jackie Gleason, imdb.com
“Ralph: Just remember, you can't put you arms around a memory. Alice: I can't even put my arms around you.”— Marvin Marx, Walter Stone, Alice Kramden, Audrey Meadows, imdb.com
“I lost both my virginities in this house, it's my house.”— Marta Kauffman, Howard J. Morris, Brianna Hanson, June Diane Raphael, imdb.com
“But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“My heart kept beat with the slowly moaning drum. The hum of words unsaid. Breathless.”— Courtney Long, lennyletter.com
“Maybe, if we’re gonna remember Bourdain for one thing, it’s that open-hearted curiosity and humility, a willingness to be a perpetual student of the world, committed to using his platform to reveal the complexity and beauty of the human experience, one bite at a time.”— Cooper Fleishman, melmagazine.com
“my very first memory involves watching her plant roses in a garden and i’ve written too many poems to call this anything other than symbolic.”— Caitlin Conlon, cgcpoems.tumblr.com
“Hello, Stranger you haunt my moonlit Odyssey I wish I could call you by name.”— Leigh Cuen, leighcuen.tumblr.com
“Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here.”— Willie Nelson, npr.org
“My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.”— Lionel Messi, espn.com
“To truly love, to truly forgive and to hold no record of the past is very hard.”— Letitia Wright, twitter.com
“For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”— Alan Lightman, amazon.com