Memory Quote by Don DeLillo

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never…

— Carl Sagan

“Some stories need to be told time and again. Every generation forgets. Every child learns anew.”

— David Demchuk

“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

“The young hear memory in the voice of their elders and, delighted by these voices from the past or bored by them, too often…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and…

— Noam Shpancer

“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories…

— Patricia Hampl

“193. The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, “Then was then, now is…

— Pope Francis

“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want to recall…

— Betty Smith

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories…

— Iain Reid