“Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. There… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“VLADIMIR: ( after a moment of bewilderment ). We'll see when the time comes. ( Pause. ) I was saying that things… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
“This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is drums. I have a very, very big memory - and I don't have many big memories - of… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
My first go at drinking did not go so well. I ended up getting sick in front of everybody. You know that… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
“And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love, but you must not grow up,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of… — Edward Whymper Copy Share Image
I think more about clicking the teeth, because I have to line them up just exactly right, and then I slam them… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
“Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“MEMORIES All memories of days gone by can only be remembered in the twilight of evening’s calm warmth All memories remembered in… — Ramon William Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“This was many years ago. The staircase wall on which I saw the rising glimmer of his candle has long since ceased… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I was dozing, and the clock woke me. I didn’t hear the first few chimes distinctly, that is to say, I didn’t… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Human memories were organized in the hippocampus region, but recent research suggested the information was only stored there on a short-term basis.… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What really mattered, though, were… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“In some precious and personal moments there are brief, sudden surges of recognition of an immortal insight, a doctrinal deja vu. These… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic.… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“Are we not, all of us, in some way, damaged mirrors? Are we not constantly engaged in focusing the light of thought—memories… — Yael Shahar Copy Share Image
“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“It's like when someone dies. And you can't believe they're really gone because you ran into them yesterday. They were right there… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period;… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. These are first-person memories—I memories. But there… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Fragments of memory flashed through his head. Matt saw fists descending on him mercilessly from all sides, but he couldn't remember who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The memory brought back the timbre of her voice and the tickle of her hair on my chin as I put her… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
“For example, students of policy have noted that the availability heuristic helps explain why some issues are highly salient in the public’s… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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![“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're…” quote by Elizabeth Loftus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/328/elizabeth-loftus-34415_brains_m-any-people-believe-that-memory-works-l_1081039.jpg)
