Charming Quote by Michel de Certeau

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

“It is...difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.…

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly…

— Michael Leunig

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

A memory is golden A memory is golden, maybe that is true. I never wanted memories. I only wanted you sweet as a rose,…

— Babloo

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with…

— William Maxwell

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

— Antonio Porchia

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

— Richard Schickel

[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

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

— Oscar Wilde

“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