Memory Quote by Martha Beck

“What is a memory, anyway? Is it an indelible record, unimpeachable, frozen in some synaptic arrangement and stored away for some moment it might…

— Jon Harrison

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

— Ray Bradbury

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

— Mark Van Doren

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an…

— Christopher Nolan

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back…

— Elizabeth Loftus

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

“Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets…

— Jodi Picoult

“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems…

— Noam Shpancer

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

— Ellen Hopkins

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative,…

— Stanley Kauffmann