Fantasy Quote by Marcel Duchamp

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

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

— Anonymous

History is the memory of life

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

“[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 performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides…

— Mark Van Doren

“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

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

— Ben Jonson

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye