Memory Quote by Tana French

“Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”

— Italo Calvino

“I know from experience that nothing can compete with a memory.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“There is no control over memory.”

— Jean Rhys

“Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory.”

— Laurent Binet

“Memory is just an alternate version of reality.”

— Candace Bushnell

“The enemy of memory isn’t time; it’s other memories.”

— David Eagleman

“Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it…

— Balthasar Gracian

“Who can be worried without the light of a memory?”

— Sorin Cerin

“A perfect memory is the enemy of thought.”

— Esther Murphy Arthur

“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!”

— Ashim Shanker

“The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things.”

— Lisa Jewell

“But isn’t that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina…

— Jason Mott