Memory Quote by Michael W. Twitty

“A memory is not the thing remembered.”

— Patrick Ness

“Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”

— Italo Calvino

“You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.”

— Upasana Saraf

“I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.”

— Edith Konecky

“Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go…

— José Luís Peixoto

“Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it”

— Cat Patrick

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

— Noam Shpancer

“The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...”

— R. Lutece

“...while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.”

— Louise Penny

“We are doomed to remember what never really happened.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Memory is like a cat. It comes and wraps itself around you when you least desire it, and the moment you seek it out,…

— Melodie Winawer