Memory Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

— Marilynne Robinson

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not…

— Nicole Krauss

The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you,…

— Martha Manning

I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try to remember…

— Lore Segal

Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch…

— Susan Kay

“Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void from which…

— Marcel Proust

“You can look at a photograph, years later, of a place that is vivid in your memory, and find that it looks nothing like…

— Deborah Lawrenson

In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes…

— Albert Hofmann

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15…

— Joshua Foer

Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and…

— Pittacus Lore

Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.

— Richard Bandler