50+ Funny Memory Quotes That Prove Our Brains Have Selective Amnesia

50+ Funny Memory Quotes That Prove Our Brains Have Selective Amnesia

Funny memory quotes capture the hilarious struggle of trying to rely on a brain that loves to forget the important stuff 🤪. From forgetting why you walked into a room 🚪 to perfectly remembering embarrassing moments from 10 years ago 🤦‍♂️, memory is a full-time comedy show 😂. These quotes highlight the absurd, frustrating, and laugh-out-loud funny side of how our minds work (or don’t work) 🙃. Get ready to laugh at how your memory has a mind of its own 😄!

New funny memory quotes

  • One of my biggest talents is taking hundreds of screenshots that I swear I’ll need, but I never look at them again.
  • Not to brag or anything, but I can forget what I’m doing while I’m doing it.
  • I’m so old I remember when a hashtag was called a pound sign, and we played tic-tac-toe on top of it.
  • I will never forget when my dad had a guy from Verizon call me in middle school to tell me that I was using more data than Obama and that I need to stop.
  • A haunted house, but it’s just all apps and websites where you got logged out but can’t remember your password.
  • High school crushes were crazy because, why the hell was I running all over school just to catch a glimpse of him.
  • Remember those days when you missed school and you’d check the time and think, ‘They’re eating right now.’
  • I came up with my passwords when I was 12, and never looked back.
  • This can’t be the same brain I was using to read 750-page novels in 3 days during middle school.
  • People think I forgot the shit they said. Ain’t no expiration date on disrespect.

Top funny memory quotes

  • The 70s, 80s, and 90s were the best decades – so many memories, no evidence.
  • Hey (with the intention of making you forget everyone who came before me).
  • Photos are cool because they are like now but for later.
  • Sometimes I do this fun little thing, where I take the time to write a grocery list, and then I forget it at home.
  • Old age comes at a bad time. Once you finally know everything, you start to forget everything you know.
  • In the 90s, you’d always find your way to some stranger’s house.
  • Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved staying up really late, hanging out with myself, and thinking about stuff and things.
  • You don’t have to remember details when you don’t lie.
  • We literally used to write an essay by hand.
  • The only thing that could heal me is a memory loss.
  • I actually do check to see if you told me happy birthday before I tell you.
  • Love it when my brain is like, “You forgot something,” and then refuses to elaborate.
  • Not photogenic, but I probably look soooo good as a distant memory.
  • The only thing I don’t miss about the 90s is people smelling like cigarettes.
  • Born to screenshot everything and never look at it again.
  • “I’m too young to be forgetting why I walked into a room.”
  • For your own sanity, move on like you never knew them, because in reality, you never did.
  • My ability to remember song lyrics from the ’90s far exceeds my ability to remember why I walked into the garage.
  • I’m at the age when riding around town, I say, “When did they build that?”
  • Nighttime is when I remember that one weird thing I said in 6th grade, and feel bad about it forever.

More funny memory quotes

  • I swear, if my memory was any worse, I could plan my own surprise party.
  • How is this the same brain that used to remember everybody’s phone numbers?
  • I miss the old days back in 1955, when I didn’t exist.
  • Is there anyone here old enough to remember when typing was a class in high school?
  • I’m so old that when I take a walk down memory lane, I get lost.
  • My daughter says I’m making it up! Do you remember having to carry a quarter for the payphone, just in case?
  • Adulthood these days is just bills and running out of memory on devices.
  • The worst part about waking up is all the remembering.
  • They just don’t put milkshakes in the yard like they used to.
  • Hey, people, my age. Remember going into the computer lab at school?

Witty memory quotes

  • “Stop recording everything and just enjoy the moment” is asking me for videos from last night.
  • One of my biggest faults is that when I ask someone their name, I forget to listen to what their name is.
  • Do you ever think back about all the crazy stuff you did when you were younger, and wonder how you’re still alive?
  • I’m old enough to remember when the hole in the ozone layer killed us all off.
  • When I was a little kid, I used to think, “This little pig went to market,” meant it was going shopping!
  • This post is highly top-secret. You need to forget that you’ve seen it immediately.
  • I’ve never found a “Remember Me” checkbox that works. Nothing remembers me.
  • I don’t need to learn something new, I need to remember something old, like why did I come into this room?
  • It’s crazy how genuinely entertaining it is to stare into an open fire. That’s some real epigenetic memory shit.
  • One day you burned a CD for the last time and didn’t even realize it.

Funny memory quotes remind us that while we forget what we actually need to remember 📅, our brains have no problem holding onto the most random nonsense 🤣. Whether it’s song lyrics from childhood 🎶, awkward moments from years ago 😬, or the one thing you wanted to forget 🙃, memory is wildly unreliable — and endlessly funny. These quotes are perfect for anyone who’s mastered the art of forgetting everything important while remembering everything useless 🤪. So embrace the brain fog, laugh at the mix-ups, and enjoy the comedy of memory 😂!