Blur Quote by Alex Gaskarth

“Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days…

— Gloria Naylor

“The human brain has a monstrous ability to re-create memories of such clarity that the rest of the body loses all sense of time.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

— William Gibson

The work of memory collapses time.

— Walter Benjamin

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

— Nora Ephron

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

— Joan Didion

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than…

— Stephenie Meyer

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what…

— Sherwood Smith

“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't…

— Jamie Kain

“The problem was that such simple, ordinary bliss seldom formed memories. It was too smooth and silken to adhere. It was the bad stuff,…

— Laura Lippmann