Morgan Freeman Quotes

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

I have great memories.

Liverpool was a special city that took to me; I will always remember how special that place was. I obviously don't miss the rain.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

Honestly, I stay in a lot of hotels, and it makes me miss my bed.

I go to many different places many times, but I miss my house constantly.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta