--- title: "7 Memories Lie Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Memories Lie quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Memories Lie sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/rob-sheffield-1368_happy-memories_trying-to-live-in-the-past-didn-t-work-f_402947.jpg" --- > [“Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-sheffield/trying-to-live-in-the-past-didn-t-work-for-me-and-it-s-only-now-that/) [Rob Sheffield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-sheffield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/rob-sheffield-1368_happy-memories_trying-to-live-in-the-past-didn-t-work-f_402947.jpg) > [It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilson-rawls/it-s-strange-indeed-how-memories-can-lie-dormant-in-a-man-s-mind-for/) [Wilson Rawls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilson-rawls/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/wilson-rawls-17111_dormant_it-s-strange-indeed-how-memories-can-lie_576985.jpg) > [“The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to becomeerased as the years go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/primo-levi/the-memories-which-lie-within-us-are-not-carved-in-stone-not-only-do/) [Primo Levi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/primo-levi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a97/primo-levi-2751_memory_the-memories-which-lie-within-us-are-not_1292161.jpg) > [How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rollins/how-memories-lie-to-us-how-time-coats-the-ordinary-with-gold-how-it/) [Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rollins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46e/henry-rollins-170_break_how-memories-lie-to-us-how-time-coats-th_2086528.png) > [Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/primo-levi/human-memory-is-a-marvelous-but-fallacious-instrument-the-memories/) [Primo Levi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/primo-levi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/717/primo-levi-2751_features_human-memory-is-a-marvelous-but-fallacio_2208808.jpg) > [“My words and my stories are merely just memories that already lie, dormant, in your mind. It is my sole purpose to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-n-harris/my-words-and-my-stories-are-merely-just-memories-that-already-lie/) [José N. Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jos-n-harris/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/166/jos-n-harris-929_life_my-words-and-my-stories-are-merely-just_2558222.jpg) > [“But the fact is that writing is the only way in which I am able to cope with the memories which overwhelm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/but-the-fact-is-that-writing-is-the-only-way-in-which-i-am-able-to/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cf/anonymous-1_memories_but-the-fact-is-that-writing-is-the-only_2883384.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/memories-lie/#itemlist", "name": "Memories Lie Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it didn't. Because it would have been all too sad to miss out on right now. That would have turned the past into a fraud. It would have meant all my happy memories were a lie. It would have meant all that time and all that love was a waste, leading up to a wasted future. It would have been the ultimate betrayal of everything I thought my whole life was about and everyone I cared about. All the people who loved me, in all the times and places of my life—all the people who made a lover out of me—they would have all been wrong about me. And it could have happened easily, just like that. It's scary to think of how I could have gotten stuck pining for the past. I was lucky to get a second chance. 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We would not be capable of ordering even the simplest thoughts, the most sensitive heart would lose the ability to show affection, our existence would be a mere neverending chain of meaningless moments, and there would not be the faintest trace of a past. How wretched this life of ours is!--so full of false conceits, so futile, that it is little more than the shadow of the chimeras loosed by memory. 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