False Memories Quotes

#1. Flesh does strange things to memory. Pain and joy both alter it. When you are happy, you remember things one way. When you are sad, you remember them another. And sometimes the flesh does not admit that memory is real at all or plucks false memories out of thin air.

Tanya Karen Gough

#2. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events

Adrienne Rich

#3. Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They're called campaign promises.

Jay Leno

#4. The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

Martin Gardner

#5. We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,

Elizabeth Loftus

#6. After Abalyn said what she said, I panicked. Someone tells me I can't remember what I definitely do remember, and sometimes I panic. I'm not as used to it as I often pretend. As I pretend to be used to it, I mean to say. The false memories.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#7. The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant.

Salvador Dali

#8. I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

John Lydon

#9. Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

Elizabeth Loftus

#10. Memory and imagination are only a knife edge apart, and I wonder if I'm making it all up: slipping false memories in among the real ones, just to have something to hold onto. Fools gold.

Abigail Haas

#11. Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Stephen King

#12. I'm sorry I don't remember."
He shrugs like it doesn't matter, but it does, and we both know it. "We'll make new memories.

Dan Krokos

#13. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.

Sylvia Plath

#14. Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying "time heals all wounds" is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.

Suzanne Collins

#16. In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Robert Benton

#17. I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

Eric Cantona

#18. We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.

Paula Gunn Allen

#19. Your memories don't make you who you are.

Dan Krokos

#20. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#21. Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

Betty White

#22. If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.

Ethel Smyth

#23. Then it came to her plainly what she felt about Jack's return. So simple. It was disappointment that he had not stayed away. Just a little longer. Nothing more than that. Disappointment.

Ian McEwan

#24. Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

Elizabeth Loftus

#25. But I couldn't block out the memories, false or not. Couldn't block out the internal pain I shouldn't even be able to feel. Couldn't keep those annoying phony tears that felt so, so real from flowing.

Debra Driza

#26. Derek's the nicest guy I know. He would never ... you know."
"He better not ... you know!" Hayden bit out.

C.C. Hunter

#27. Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Evelyn Cunningham

#28. Rest your mind for a moment in the peace of knowing you were created and you do exist.

Bryant McGill

#29. The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

Richard Dawkins

#30. The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. We've sifted through the eight thousand, don't worry about that. And this is the one. This is the murder weapon, no doubt about it."

Then the President has been murdered?"

I cant tell you that right now. But I can assure you that if there has been a murder, this is what did it.

Philip Roth

#32. With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

Glenn Reynolds

#33. It is a meager freedom that leaves no scars

Brian Staveley

#34. Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

Yasmin Mogahed

#35. So not only was it possible to implant false new memories in the brain, but people embraced and embellished them, unknowingly weaving fantasy into the fabric of their identity.

David Eagleman

#36. I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Mario Batali

#37. For there are other times when I think that I have always been here, that I was born here some endless age ago. And the memories are all false ones, sent to make me hurt the more.

George R R Martin

#38. My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Elizabeth Loftus

#39. I believe life is destiny, and really the capture the magic of life, and the same for the magic in the disaster.

Meital Dohan