Brain Quote by Candace Bushnell

“Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem.…

— Yoko Ogawa

“He also discovered that when he touched certain parts of the brain, he triggered long-lost childhood memories or dreamlike scenes—which implied that higher mental…

— Norman Doidge

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply…

— Dan Brown

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

— Edith Wharton

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that…

— Richard Matheson

“He was uninterested in art, politics, culture, people. While his brain burrowed through rock toward a very specific knowledge goal, mine preferred to warren…

— Heidi Julavits

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

— Dan Brown

“Memory kept things from being over.”

— Joseph McElroy

“They say the brain can block painful memories, leaving gaps and voids in place of them, but it didn’t work like that for me.…

— Tammara Webber

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

— Ann Brashares

“He could get no rest as long as the memories were tangled with the present”

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi