Memories Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“...and the worse the memory, the stronger its stranglehold on the present.”

— Eliza Granville

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

— Daniel Schacter

The value of memories increases over time. What may seem trivial today, could become priceless tomorrow.

— Anonymous

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

“To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory”

— Jeremy Aldana

“The opposite of memory--hope. SO things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”

— Isaac Marion

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“That is the present: an emanation of memory bouncing on the illusion of the future”

— Anouar Majid

“It isn't just the past we remember, it's the future too. Fifty per cent of memory is devoted not to what has already happened,…

— ZEN

A memory is just a memory, don't let it control what happens in the future or worse the present.

— Collin Mitchell