Memory Quote by John Steinbeck

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker

“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

“The concept of Time is but the span of our memory.”

— Marie Sabillo

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

— William Gibson

“Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that’s been more or less agreed upon. Or perhaps it’s that same paradox again: the history…

— Julian Barnes

“That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over a span…

— Milan Kundera

“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,…

— Raymond Quaneau

“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act…

— Julian Barnes

“Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality’s vulture flies down and picks…

— John Dolan

“Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory”

— Paulo Coelho

We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who…

— Julian Barnes

“Times slows when your life is in danger. Every second takes a minute to pass, and even the smallest event gets chiseled into memory. (95)”

— John Bul Dau