Book Quote by Christopher Hitchens

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a…

— Melina Marchetta

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

— Elbert Hubbard

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and…

— Joshua Foer

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

— John Green

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires…

— Heidi Julavits

Nothing fixes someone so intently in the memory as the wish to forget them.

— Anonymous

“...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

A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles

— Irish Blessings

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

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

— Marilynne Robinson