Human brain Quote by Fredrik Backman

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

— William Gibson

“The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the…

— Richard Carlson

“When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe that is…

— Cees Nooteboom

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

— Pope Francis

“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act…

— Julian Barnes

The work of memory collapses time.

— Walter Benjamin

“How quickly does the body forget its history?”

— Sarah Schmidt

“To what extent does time distort memory>”

— Anita Shreve

“We enshrine things in memory very differently from how we experience them in real time.”

— Jennifer Senior

“Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality’s vulture flies down and picks…

— John Dolan