Memories Quote by John Irving

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from…

— John Irving

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You think you have a memory; but it has you!

— John Irving

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.

— Carol Berg

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

— Roma Tearne

Our memories are independent of our wills.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets…

— Jodi Picoult

“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems…

— Noam Shpancer

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

— Beryl Markham

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet