Memory Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

“This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future…

— Richard Rohr

“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we’d forgotten?”

— Julian Barnes

“Memory had a habit of erasing, leaving only the most necessary.”

— Daisy Johnson

“A memory is not the thing remembered.”

— Patrick Ness

“There are things that one keeps on dreaming of forgetting, while others were ought to be remembered, but were kept off.”

— Fady Seleem

“Whether individual, collective, or even written history, memory is not a fixed, passive storage system: it is dynamic, changing according to different circumstances. The…

— Suzanne Keene

“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”

— Ken Liu

“Memory kept things from being over.”

— Joseph McElroy

“What isn't remembered never happened. Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record.”

— Yoshitoshi ABe

“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.”

— Leah Bobet

“Memory is a means of possession, but eventually, the greatest grace is found in letting go. _Population: 485_, p 178.”

— Michael Perry

“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is…

— Anne Rice