Deceiver Quote by Tobsha Learner

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

— Thomas de Quincey

“Memory fans out from imagination, and vice versa, and why not. Memory isn’t a well but an offshoot. It goes secretly. Comes apart. Deceives.…

— Durga Chew-Bose

“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and fades, blooms…

— Martha Beck

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

— Richard Linklater

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

— Gustave Flaubert

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of…

— John Locke

Memories are wonderful to make but sometimes painful to remember.

— Anonymous