Convenience Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The main benefit of memory for past events may be that it allows us to imagine future events.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

— Daniel Schacter

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own…

— Salman Rushdie

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory is imagination pinned down.

— Mason Cooley

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

— David Horowitz

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

Memory belongs to the imagination.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet