Complicated Quote by Adrienne Rich

“Any time you try to collapse the distance between your delusions about the past and what really happened, there is suffering involved." p. xx”

— Mary Karr

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

— Agnes Repplier

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

— Edna Buchanan

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past…

— Milan Kundera

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

— G. M. Trevelyan

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality…

— Klaus Mann

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

“Anyone who says time travel is impossible has never had to relive the memories of past traumas or mistakes.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

“The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it.”

— Augusten Burroughs

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could…

— Richard Matheson