Memory Quote by William Maxwell

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to…

— William Maxwell

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with…

— William Maxwell

“We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.”

— Melissa Thayer

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

“guess this is what we mean when we talk about the persistence of memory, this or something like this, something you see at the…

— Stephen King

“I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they…

— Liz Stephens

“Memory is the irruption of other things in us.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time and again…

— Mark Lawrence

“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories…

— Iain Reid

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.”

— Simon Van Booy

“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and…

— Noam Shpancer