Memory Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water…

— Anonymous

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more…

— Joshua Foer

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

— Ellen Hopkins

“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

[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

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

— Edward de Bono

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Noam Shpancer

Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it…

— Gunter Grass

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson