Confusing Quote by Dan Simmons

Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they…

— Azar Nafisi

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Memories Memories are real life experiences distilled over time into a palatable elixir that one can selectively choose to indulge. Heartbreak and misfortune are…

— Rob Wood

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality…

— Klaus Mann

“Memories are like that. They live between synapses and between the people who hold them. Memories, even epic ones, are perishable from their very…

— David Carr

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

— Thomas de Quincey

I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones…

— Melanie Benjamin

Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are…

— Daniel Kahneman

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

— Haruki Murakami

One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our…

— Hallie Burnett

“The problem with memories is that they're not objective. One person's memory is another person's fiction. Everything is a matter of perception, defined by…

— S.G. Browne

“Our modern microscopes, scanners, and sensors have disabused us of most of the old fanciful notions about the brain’s function. But the brain’s strangely…

— Nicholas Carr