No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“If I close my eyes, plug my ears, and hold my tongue, all of this will cease to exist. I can pretend… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“I maintain that a student’s memory is largely the teacher’s responsibility.” — Pimsleur Copy Share Image
“Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without recollection of them and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Pain is the price we pay for memory. It’s some kind of sin to forget what hurts, as much as it is… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine. — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“I would wonder if forgetfulness is more a product of convenience than cognitive function.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don’t, because part of our ability to survive and not to… — Anthony Greenwald Copy Share Image
“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I fold the memory carefully inside of me. I bury it down deep. “Lift” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.” — Karolyn James Copy Share Image
“Even before he was twenty, Gus had dwelt in memory, in a less complicated time but, ultimately, memory had become for him… — Sudye Cauthen Copy Share Image
We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Why do we speak of memory and speed reading? Why is there this need to learn how to learn? The reason is… — Robert James Copy Share Image
“...and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put… — Benjamin Brindise Copy Share Image
“They say the brain can block painful memories, leaving gaps and voids in place of them, but it didn’t work like that… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can’t remember what you did minutes ago, but… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
“...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
We got to appreciate the things that we have and forget about what we don't have... love&happiness — Shell Copy Share Image
