Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire - John Dewey
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting - Milan Kundera
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs - George Eliot, Middlemarch
The existence of forgetting has never been proved. We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them - Friedrich Nietzsche
The computer is becoming our memory. We are moving from a society that remembers to a society that searches and finds - Gerry McGovern
Our memories are card-indexes, consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.- Cyril Connolly, essayist, and novelist. The Unquiet Grave (1944)
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort -- Gaston Bachelard, 1884-1962
Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of one thing with another, which means that any attempt to put memory on film cannot be told like a conventional narrative - Yuriy Norhsteyn, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy_Norshteyn
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory - Les Brown, American Author & Motivator Lecturer
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory - Les Brown, American Author & Motivator Lecturer