August Quote by William Faulkner

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”

— William Faulkner

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

— William Faulkner

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall…

— Tan Twan Eng

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled…

— William Faulkner

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

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

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

— David Horowitz

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

— Anonymous

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of…

— Khaled Hosseini