Conscious Quote by Siri Hustvedt

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

— Stephen King

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

— Erica Jong

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires…

— Heidi Julavits

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

— Joseph Pulitzer

What is memory? To remember is an effort and to forget, effortless. And some memories get etched so deep in our system that they…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

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

— Salman Rushdie

“Explicit memory (also called declarative memory) principally holds words, numbers, and events. Or, to use the parlance of neurobiology, it is memory that's semantic…

— David DiSalvo

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by…

— Samuel Johnson

I think memory is essential to what we are. If we - we wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory. And…

— W. S. Merwin

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

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory is what makes us young or old.

— Anonymous