Delusion Quote by Richard Matheson

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that…

— Richard Matheson

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig

“MEMORY'S SO TREACHEROUS. ONE MOMENT YOU'RE LOST IN A CARNIVAL OF DELIGHTS, WITH POIGNANT CHILDHOOD AROMAS , THE FLASHING NEON OF PUBERTY, ALL THAT…

— Alan Moore

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

— Willa Cather

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister

“[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

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

— Romare Bearden

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

— William Faulkner

One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told…

— Christopher Robin Milne

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

— Michael Ignatieff

“People have a tendency of filtering their memories – exaggerate the positives and downplay their weaknesses and faults. Self-preservation will be another obstacle you…

— Alexis Lawrence