“We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Memory is as thick as mud. It rises up, it overwhelms. It sucks you down and freezes you where you stand. Thrash… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“In spite of the three hours I spent combing over the details, I have, to this day, a very persistent certainty that… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“You were born to be remembered, not missed. Being missed means you eat up people's memory leaving them full of you but… — Tapiwa Mugabe Copy Share Image
“You dream that with memories will come knowledge, and from knowledge, understanding. But for every answer you find, a thousand new questions… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs. — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my sense of reality is not very highly developed, perhaps I lack a sound and reassuring instinct for the solid facts… — Annemarie Schwarzenbach Copy Share Image
Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The American people and media have an incredibly short memory despite technological tools that allow for infinite storage and recall.” — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“A memory is least accurate when most reflected upon, and most accurate when least pondered. Together, those two facts make eyewitness testimony… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Twenty thousand days and nights in one place, each layered and trapped and folded on top of the last, the creases in… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The problem with people, is that we don't appreciate memories in the making. every moment, is a mark on your entire life..… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“The only four times this word anamnesis is used in Scripture, it is in reference to the sacrifice that Christ made and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“It's a mistake to think that if we don't remember or don't acknowledge painful experiences they will just disappear. In fact, great… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“The existence of different memory systems explains why you can experience anxiety in a situation without any conscious memory (or understanding) of… — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We'll take the best, forget the rest, and someday we'll find these are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Jack had been a jerk that night, even though I tried not to remember that part. It felt like I wasn't missing… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
