The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“Tradition comes from something being so brilliant and such a good memory, that you try to recreate it every time that you… — Lily Morton Copy Share Image
The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“And even if we are occupied by most important things, if we attain to honour, or fall into great misfortune -- still… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to be someone you'll always remember. I want to be someone you'll never forget. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“If it is a thought, it has to be different from what already exists. Else, it is memory.” — R.N. Prasher Copy Share Image
One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
All people have a photographic memory, some just don't have the film. I do, but it never develops quite right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past,… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you. — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
I hate when I put something in a safe place so I won't lose it...But then forget where that safe place is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only thing we got to keep were our memories, and now I was about to take those from him, too. "Close… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
