M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.”
Source: Word Painting
“Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.”
Source: A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the storying of the present. -Lynda Sexson”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Memory is as thick as mud. It rises up, it overwhelms. It sucks you down and freezes you where you stand.”
“Memory is better than fact anyway, because it's created by feelings.”
“memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.”
“Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting”
“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.”
“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
“Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.”
“Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.”
“Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.”
Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
“Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.”
Source: St. Elmo: A Novel
“Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.”
Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
“Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!”
“Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.”
“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.”
“Memory is frail. It requires a delicate touch, a tenderness.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.”
“Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”
“Memory is imagination in reverse.”
Source: The Marriage of True Minds
“Memory is imagination pinned down.”
“Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part of your heart. Myth is the true history. Don't let them tell you that there are no monsters. Don't let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd. Be strong, my darling ones, and believe!”
Source: The Sick Bag Song
“Memory is just an alternate version of reality.”
Source: 4 Blondes
“Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head - that's where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.”
“Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.”
“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”
“Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.”
Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
“Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”
“Memory is like surveillance footage: Everything gets picked up but you don't really review it unless there's an incident.”
“Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls
are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.”
Source: Melancholy of Mechagirl
“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
“Memory is meant to be given. It isn’t held well alone. It is meant to be held in a collective and across generations. Memories that remain exclusive to a particular individual or even community are at risk of becoming false. The smell of lavender becomes the smell of grass. The abduction of Black bodies becomes their “migration.” When memory endures no scrutiny or curiosity or challenge from the exterior, it can lead to a profound loneliness at best; at worst, individual or collective delusion.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.”
“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by
“Memory is most fickle among the guilty. Fine, no one steps forward, no one lives!”
Source: Lunora: A Book of Sand
“Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.”
Source: A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi
“Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since”
Source: Sin
“Memory is not a perfect record. It is a story we keep rewriting.”
Source: The Echoes Within
“Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.”
“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.”
“Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.”
“Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.”
“Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know.”
Source: The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it
“Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.”
“Memory is not the past. It is the echo of the stars we lost.”
Source: The Stars That Weren’t For Me: A Boy’s Journey Through Love, Silence, and Stolen Stars