Memories are moments that stay with us forever, whether they be inspiring, hilarious, comforting or motivating. These unforgettable memories quotes capture the spirit of making meaningful and lasting memories. The most inspiring unforgettable memories quotes also help you remember the most monumental moments in life.
Get inspired and motivated with these wise words of wisdom about life, memories, and moments that last a lifetime.
Unforgettable Memories Quotes
We don’t remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. Saul Bellow
Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming! Joseph B. Wirthlin
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love. Kevin Arnold
Memories are what warms you up from the inside. Haruki Murakami
The best part about pictures is that even when the people in the photo change, the memory it contains never will. Andy Warhol
Life cannot be lived backwards. But our memories make up for that by making some moments truly unforgettable! Avijeet Das
Old memories are like coffee with cream and sugar. When stirred, both can become mellow and sweet. Susan Gale
Memories are the best things in life, I think. Romy Schneider

What takes us back to the past are the memories. Jeremy Irons
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Thomas Fuller
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. Charles Baudelaire
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but actually it’s the good ones that drive you insane. Kid Cudi
Some memories live forever, whether as a scar or a stain they can’t be wiped away. Radhika Raut
Every moment comes on when I hear that old song that we used to sing with the words all wrong. Zoya Roy
Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory. Theodor Seuss Geisel
The tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever. Malik Faisal

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter skelter. Charles De Lint
Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense. Helen Keller
I love these random unforgettable memories that make me smile no matter what’s going on in my life right now. Meena Chakrabarty
Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be. Ben Affleck
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. Lois Lowry
You may not think you have a good memory, but you remember what’s important to you. Rick Warren
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. David Attenborough
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith

Time moves in one direction, memory in another. William Gibson
We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
It’s strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man’s mind for so many years. Wilson Rawls
A good life is a collection of happy memories. Denis Waitley
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell
The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible. Brian Tracy
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life. Banana Yoshimoto
Memories need to be shared. Lois Lowry

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese
Every man’s memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself. Alfred de Musset
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep. Nick Hornby
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne
To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory. Gretchen Rubin
There are things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them. John Boyne
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. Og Mandino
No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep. Ryan Brü

What I have got from my childhood aren’t toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. River Phoenix
Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. Robert Brault
Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled. Jean Paul Richter
That’s the thing about memories; you can’t forget them. Lex Luthor
For some, life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. Laura Swenson
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something. Franklin P. Jones
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather
Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives. Ben Affleck
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! Fernando Pessoa
I remember the giants born so long ago; in those ancient days they raised me. Jackson Crawford
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. Nicholas Sparks

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers. Rachel Vincent
Memories can be vile, repulsive, little brutes. Alan Moore
A life long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. Charlotte Kasl
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading. Kazuo Ishiguro
Memories the one thing that can never be taken away from us. Make lots of them! Catherine Pulsifer
What we remember from childhood, we remember forever permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. Cynthia Ozick
There’ll always be unforgettable memories behind your goodbyes. Ujjwal Karmakar
The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by. Alek Wek
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. Ally Condie
Memories are like a garden. Regularly tend the pleasant blossoms and remove the invasive weeds. Linda Fifer Ralphs
You can’t describe your best friends in words. You can describe them with memories that you had with them. Saurabh Saini
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. Fernando Pessoa
Memories are like books; a few live in our hearts through life, and the rest, like the bills we pay, are read and then forgotten. George Bendall
The more often you share what you’ve learned, the stronger that information will become in your memory. Steve Brunkhorst
Every passing moment is another chance to create memories, and Life is full of moments, make them beautiful and memorable! Laylablack
Keep all special unforgettable memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. Mattie Stepanek
Good memories are most often created without conscious effort. These are the memories that result from those unselfish acts or behaviors that give of our time, talents or gifts without any due regard for repayment. Byron R. Pulsifer
Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. Italo Calvino
Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters Effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it. Rob Lowe
Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. Brassai
Own only what you can always carry with you know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I danced in the flames and pranced on the shames of those whose names I could not reveal. I have been told, exhaustingly by a genus of psychiatry, that to forget allegedly means to heal but if only such a thought became real. To die when compared to living has, at times, seemed like the lesser evil. The Raveness
Your memory is a monster; you forget it doesn’t. John Irving
Memories are not made by standing still. Nyki Mack
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe
She told me Pokhara is so beautiful that you will experience a myriad of unforgettable moments. You will never be able to get enough of Pokhara. Avijeet Das
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. Mark Twain
I have just described an unforgettable event in my life, and yet I hardly ever get a chance to speak of it. It doesn’t fit the framework of social discourse. Ruth Klüger
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. Virginia Woolf
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance. Christopher Poindexter
The deepest rooted and most pleasurable memories are usually those from earliest childhood, and are often unconsciously associated with a parental figure. Robert Greene
Keep all special unforgettable memories for lifetimes to come. Mattie Stepanek
We all have our time machines, don’t we? Those that take us back are memories. And those that carry us forward are dreams. H.G. Wells
Touch has a memory. John Keats
But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. Dan Millman
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. J.M. Barrie
Hold on to the things you are, the things you never want to lose. Kevin Arnold
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. Karl Lagerfeld
Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there. Sarah Dessen
Memory is more indelible than ink. Anita Loos
It’s just that without the memories, it’s all meaningless. Lois Lowry
How quickly things disappear in the universe the bodies themselves but in time the memory of them. Marcus Aurelius