Comfort Quote by Louisa Thomsen Brits

“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

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

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

“Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't…

— Jamie Kain

“Memories establish the past; Senses perceive the present; Imaginations shape the future.”

— Toba Beta

“Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves…

— Jim Stovall

“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost”

— Kevin Arnold

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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