Condition Quote by Laurie Graham

Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a…

— Hannah Kent

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their…

— Italo Svevo

“Clinical psychologists have proven that ordinary people will alter their memories of the past to make them fit their perceptions. It is the way…

— Scott Adams

Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,…

— George Santayana

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of…

— Scott Spencer

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our…

— Siri Hustvedt

Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or…

— Judy Parfitt

When someone has dementia you just have to inhabit their parallel universe with them. There is nothing to be gained from challenging their take…

— Angela Rippon

“Dr. [Ian] Stevenson [from the University of Virginia School of Medicine]'s research had revealed that the majority of cases of children who remember past…

— Cathy Byrd

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

— Michael Helm

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every…

— Neil Gaiman

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat