Catching Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

— John Lahr

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

— Stephen King

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

— Heidi Julavits

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

— Erica Jong

“Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of…

— Julio Cortazar

People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which…

— Lobsang Tenzin

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I…

— Jorge Luis Borges

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

— Colson Whitehead