Memory Quote by Jon Harrison

“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and fades, blooms…

— Martha Beck

“A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each…

— David Thomas

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

A memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

— Anonymous

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back…

— Elizabeth Loftus

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

— Salman Rushdie

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

— Ellen Hopkins

“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

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

— David Grann

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

— Edward de Bono

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative,…

— Stanley Kauffmann