Memory Quote by Zia Haider Rahman

“I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out…

— Yeonmi Park

“We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them…

— Sarah Dessen

“We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.”

— Stephen Elliott

“Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves…

— Jim Stovall

“Memories of the past are strewn like shards of glass, sometimes, lost in the mist, a distant blur, yet alive. You walk through them,…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our…

— Michael Crichton

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

“When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is…

— Xinran

“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

“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And…

— Angela Y. Davis

“Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.”

— Truth Devour

“But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if…

— Isabel Allende