2,914 Quotes About Memory




  • Author Julian Barnes
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    This last isn't something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

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  • Author Denton Welch
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    I wrote about the night bird cries, the sea sounds and the lonely barking, and I liked what I wrote in flashes; but something was wrong with it. There is always something wrong with writing. So I tore the paper up at last, liking the untouched memory so much better, not wanting it forced into the insincerity of words.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    He was prisoned in thought. Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.

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  • Author Charles Yu
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    Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the moment back as its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

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