Habits Quote by Bill Kauffman

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When”

— George Orwell

“People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor and longing…

— Malka Ann Older

“Such an incredible waste of energy, to work your ass off for sixty years, then shrivel up, die, and be nothing more than a…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Nothing is more foolish, nothing more wicked than to drag the skeletons of the past, the hideous images, the foolish deeds, the unfortunate experiences…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go…

— José Luís Peixoto

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and build from…

— F. Sionil José

“...and the worse the memory, the stronger its stranglehold on the present.”

— Eliza Granville

“We are our own memory-keepers, and we have failed ourselves.”

— Carrie Ryan