Quote by María Lugones

“Life demands more thinking than remembering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.”

— Beth Revis

“If there's one thing I have always mourned the most, it's the inconsistent and unreliable burden that is our ability to remember.”

— Luna Lacour

“Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.”

— Brodi Ashton

“Our struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting.”

— bell hooks

“At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.”

— Laurie Colwin

“Sometimes all you need is to be remembered, especially in a place where it’s so easy to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

“<...> maybe the need to be remembered is stronger than the need to remember.”

— Sarah Winman

“Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to are the ones that hurt us the most.”

— Elizabeth May

“We expend more effort in trying to forget memories than in trying to create them.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

“The weight of memories, they are difficult to escape.”

— Daniel Varona

“...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)”

— Donald Rothberg