Memory Quote by George Orwell

“It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.”

— Fay Weldon

“Being different and thinking differently make a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”

— Suzy Kassem

“it was hard to leave a place where all one’s memories and ancestral feelings centred. Before”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

“How do we change - within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot…

— M.T. Anderson

“The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don't change, even when everyone else does.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable”

— Peter Ackroyd

“So our ancestors remembered every bad thing that happened and spent much of their lives anticipating more trouble, and this is the mind we…

— Matt Lewis

“Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”

— Italo Calvino

“The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“...discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of the world…

— Ben Lerner