Desire Quote by Carlos Fuentes

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

— Jaggi Vasudev

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

— J. D. Salinger

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

— Gustave Flaubert

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted

— James Branch Cabell

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by…

— Samuel Johnson

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”

— Rabih Alameddine

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory is not what the heart desires.

— Anonymous

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

— Mark Van Doren

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

— Alain de Botton