Memories Quote by Robert Galbraith

“I worked through memories like weeping wounds. I wrote tedious accounts of petty conflicts and read them aloud to people. I removed layer after…

— Merri Lisa Johnson

“To remember was an act not of excavation but of self-creation in the present tense.”

— Laura Secor

“In the field of memory, land mines were buried everywhere, easily tripped.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

“We left this love in ruins, wreckage and debris. A ghost of our former glory, artifacts of what used to be.”

— Liz Newman

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

“Memories fade, but trauma remembers.”

— Dianne Lake

“[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

“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as archaeologist, patiently…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“In committing a work to memory we make it safe from decay. It stands untouched. Children memorize parts of stories their parents tell them.…

— Don DeLillo

“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more…

— Raquel Cepeda

“Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that…

— Jon Krakauer