Memory Quote by Elena Ferrante

“Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“But what I’ve always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he’d done just a second before.…

— Garth Stein

“Memory was a story you told yourself about yourself, extrapolated from a tiny dot-matrix of facts.”

— Jeremy Dyson

“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Making memories matters”

— Rob Lowe

“Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And he uncovered in us a curious need: that we each secretly wanted him to remember us the most. It was strange, both vital…

— Sarah Winman

“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!”

— Ashim Shanker

“Memory extends as far as our self-interest.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to…

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“Memory is just an alternate version of reality.”

— Candace Bushnell