Memory Quotes

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." "We're all stories, in the end." "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably" "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" "Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you." "Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." "Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten" "I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer" "It is so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone." "I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place" "We shall all, without exception, be forgotten." "Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air " "Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. "