“ Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ("The past was her best friend") Erik Pevernagie
“ Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I've had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were assigned to me. I took into account that people should remember me based on what I did rather than ba… Eraldo Banovac
“ I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes Vladimir Nabokov
“ [O]ne of the most influential approaches to thinking about memory in recent years, known as connectionism, has abandoned the idea that a memory is an activated picture of a past event. Connectionist o… Daniel L. Schacter
“ Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. Marcel Proust
“ How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! Vladimir Nabokov
“ Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. William Faulkner
“ I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. Virginia Woolf
“ It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. Lisa Unger
“ That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was… John Green
“ In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“ Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on… Vladimir Nabokov
“ Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody’s memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory,… Kilroy J. Oldster