Art Quote by George Santayana

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

— James Stephens

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making…

— Tracy Kidder

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

— Lawrence Durrell

“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

“I'll tell you this much. Men think memories are like murals or statues or truth or whatever happened, never changes none. But that ain't…

— Jeff Salyards

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

“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

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

— Sarah Palin