Artifacts Quote by William Gibson

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

— William Gibson

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.

— Anonymous

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.

— Claudia Winkleman

The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled…

— Joseph Addison

Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

— Antonio Porchia

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

— Elise M. Boulding

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend…

— Primo Levi

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this…

— César Aira

“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon