“Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“And what if ever on some distant day a memory comes to you of an old familiar whiff or the sound of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
“He clamped a hand behind her head and drew her against his chest, burying his face in the hollow of her shoulder.… — Catherine Anderson 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
“What, exactly, is impelling Jack Torrence toward murder... Is it undead people or undead memories?... perhaps those different conclusions are, in fact,… — Stephen King 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
I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit… — Avery Sawyer Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a… — Paul Ekman 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
“To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“As residual life energy fades from the brain, the useless clutter is first to go. The movie quotes, the radio jingles, the… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I have some great news Celt. I've accepted an offer from an investor to fund an expansion of Amnesia Incs work: we'll… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
“I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will… — CSTPimentel Copy Share Image
“this temporal-reality model with its sequence of memories gives you the subjective feeling of time flowing through a sequence of events even… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“But I withhold my pen; for vain were the fancy, by treatise or sermon or poem or tale, to persuade a man… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“There are two types of memory frequently experienced by individuals who have had overwhelming trauma that has been suppressed psychologically or chemically.… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
“You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The memories of those who perished in the Warsaw Uprising cry out across the decades, and few are clearer than the memories… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles .… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness,… — Neena H. Brar Copy Share Image
In April 2007 I learned that Yves Saint Laurent had a brain tumor, and he died on June 1, 2008. During those… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I've had people tell me that I should just be sad and not joke around on Twitter, but they don't understand that… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
“It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. This may have nothing… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Everyday I travel past at least one place we made a memory, one place where we laughed or cried, one place that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
