Memory Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for…

— Anonymous

“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married,”

— Walter Isaacson

“Old memories are hard to shed. They are who we are. And all memories, true or false, are equally real.”

— Jerry Merritt

“I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless.”

— Gennifer Albin

“I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.”

— Angélica Calheiros

“I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall…

— Scott Cawthon

“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want to recall…

— Betty Smith

“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not…

— Rabih Alameddine

“Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upone one's mind that the memory might be…

— Cassandra Clare

“But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old…

— Jane Gardam