Able Quote by Samuel Johnson

Old friends are memories personified.

— Richard Paul Evans

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

— Ronald Blythe

it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

— George Eliot

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

— Lee Radziwill

“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

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

— Sharmila Tagore

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles…

— Bari Weiss

Some memories can never be shared with anyone. Because they're unexplainable

— Anonymous

“Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

— Edwidge Danticat