Gone Quote by Plutarch

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would…

— Umberto Eco

“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 the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

— Erica Jong

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

— Deepak Chopra

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

— Colson Whitehead

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

— Studs Terkel

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

— Lauren Beukes

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just…

— Haruki Murakami

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

— Jules Renard

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

— Edward de Bono

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

— Rebecca McClanahan