Memory Quote by Paula Hawkins

“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and…

— Anonymous

“Where is the borderland between memory and hallucination?”

— Siri Husvedt

“What we now know is that our brains happily reconstruct memories, though we are frequently fooled into thinking that the reconstructions are seamlessly recorded…

— David DiSalvo

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never…

— Carl Sagan

“Whether individual, collective, or even written history, memory is not a fixed, passive storage system: it is dynamic, changing according to different circumstances. The…

— Suzanne Keene

“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

“Memory is permanent and life's encounters, transient. - "Vindication Across Time”

— Mala Naidoo

“[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

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Memories don't die, they become shelved in recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life re-ignite them, lighting up the heart, in…

— Mala Naidoo

“Memories don't die, they become shelved in the recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life reignite them, lighting up the heart,…

— Mala Naidoo