Beast Quote by Álvaro Mutis

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig

“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

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

— Romare Bearden

“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems…

— Noam Shpancer

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

— Cormac McCarthy

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend…

— Primo Levi

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

— Michael Ignatieff

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things…

— Thomas Merton

“What I really fear is time. That's the devil: whipping us on when we'd rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible to grasp,…

— Tom Rachman