Adult life Quote by Hisham Matar

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But…

— Eckhart Tolle

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

— Rebecca West

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in…

— Elizabeth Thornton

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

— Willa Cather

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like…

— J. G. Ballard

My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things…

— Akram Khan

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a…

— Diane Ackerman

I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I…

— John Banville

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.”

— Anna Aquino

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

— Diane Keaton

Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they…

— Azar Nafisi