Memory Quote by Tim O'Brien

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you…

— Tim O'Brien

“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to…

— Tim O'Brien

“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

— Tim O'Brien

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't…

— Matt Besser

“Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.”

— Chaim Potok

“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

“A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than…

— Iain Reid

“Because stories are how we share our lives and what we truly mourn when they are lost. Stories are what connect us to our…

— Grace Lin

“Memories of the past are strewn like shards of glass, sometimes, lost in the mist, a distant blur, yet alive. You walk through them,…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“It has always been the way of tales and dreams. Time forgets itself. That is also the way of remembering. But when remembering or…

— Steve Karmazenuk

“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally…

— Rebecca Solnit