Memory Quote by Peter Ackroyd

“I think i might even have preferred being the one gone and forgotten, rather than the one left behind without so much as memories"..”

— Felisblanco

“Everyone’s past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.”

— Andrew Davidson

“The opposite of memory--hope. SO things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”

— Isaac Marion

“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with…

— Karen Fowler

“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we’d forgotten?”

— Julian Barnes

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“in my opinion some things about you would not change no matter what has happened to your memory.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“Memories were fine, but you couldn't touch them. They were never exactly as the moment had been, & they faded w/ time”

— Cecilia Ahern

“Memory had a habit of erasing, leaving only the most necessary.”

— Daisy Johnson

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

“The past is in the past ; no need to remember it anymore”

— Duck Patypuck

“just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they had happened.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez