Top 80 Reality Memory Quotes
#1. Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
Frank Herbert
#2. The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.
Marcel Proust
#3. What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
Don DeLillo
#4. But that's what dreams are for - to weave reality and fantasy and memory and stitch together something you can't hope for in waking life. To fulfill that little part of you that wants something so bad.
Kelley Armstrong
#5. It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.
Hans Christian Andersen
#6. Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
Dana Goodyear
#8. Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
Cormac McCarthy
#9. In both her sacramental life and in her proclamation of the Word, the Church constitutes a distinctive subject whose memory preserves the seemingly past word and action of Jesus as a present reality.
Pope Benedict XVI
#10. But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
Chris Bohjalian
#11. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
Jorge Luis Borges
#12. In the months before the repatriation her heart had hardened around her sister's absence, letting her love Natasha in memory as she could never love her in reality.
Anthony Marra
#13. Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
Rosie Thomas
#14. For years I'd been trying to forget ... , locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey ... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.
Benedict Jacka
#15. NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
Rajneesh
#16. She is more memory than reality. She belongs to a time of teenage crushes, first kisses, crowded lecture halls and smoky pubs. Even if she had lived, we might have had nothing in common except the past.
Michael Robotham
#17. I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
Tao Lin
#18. Was it good to treasure the memory of a few perfect hours together? Or would I have been better off never meeting him?
Jennifer Echols
#19. And that's my comfort
that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?
Craig Thompson
#20. Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey
#21. That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory alone, the flowers that people show me nowadays for the first time never seem to me to be true flowers.
Marcel Proust
#23. And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.
Sanhita Baruah
#24. Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.
Ramez Naam
#25. You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.
Upasana Saraf
#26. Jesus did not begin to be loved at the moment of his baptism, nor did he cease to be loved when his baptism became a memory. Baptism simply named the reality of his existing and unending belovedness.
Rachel Held Evans
#28. More than any other politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is focused on reality. It's the rest of us who are lost.
Matt Taibbi
#29. Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
Sherwood Smith
#30. He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
Cormac McCarthy
#31. It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
Paul Klee
#32. To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
Samuel Johnson
#34. Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.
Alex Gibney
#35. When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
John Updike
#36. The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.
Laurence Gonzales
#37. Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#38. Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality.
Archibald Marwizi
#39. Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
Robert Penn Warren
#40. Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality.
Miriam Toews
#41. Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.
Hilaire Belloc
#42. Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality's vulture flies down and picks at the bones of our dreams.
John Dolan
#43. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
Roger Zelazny
#44. The memory of things become the reality of things.
Or maybe the past is not permanent. Maybe the tree has
said its fill, and leaves us with an image of ourselves.
Richard Jackson
#45. The image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art
plastic, musical, poetic, balletic
serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#47. Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them.
Steve Maraboli
#48. We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.
Hina Hashmi
#49. I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.
Jenny Hval
#50. For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.
Julian Barnes
#51. The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality
Chuck Klosterman
#52. Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.
Abraham Foxman
#53. Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies ...
Eileen Chang
#54. When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)
Victoria Moran
#55. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
Alfred Noyes
#56. The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear.
Paula Hawkins
#57. Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.
Arthur Miller
#58. What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.
Raymond E. Feist
#59. You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?
Jean Thompson
#60. How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.
Marcel Proust
#61. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Brad Herzog
#62. History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#63. Reality only happens once."
(P. 48)
Iain Reid
#64. Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory
Walter Isaacson
#65. Rick's memory turned to fantasy as his mind took a different path than what reality had already turned into history.
Brenda Cothern
#66. There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
Daniel Dennett
#67. The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.
Shireen Jeejeebhoy
#68. There is seldom any rational reason for having regreats about past deeds or events. Because the past does not exist in any other way than in your memory.
When you recognise this lack of reality, you can be calm.
Paul Wilson
#69. I kissed you because i wanted to see if reality could ever compare to a memory. It doesn't. It's ever better. And I want more, Margot.
Laura Moore
#70. Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant ...
Alan Lightman
#71. But past service counted for little these days. The world, and those who governed it, moved too quickly to be carrying such burdens as memory and gratitude.
Brian Ruckley
#72. There's nothing like a re-creation of the event. Which is lucky. Think if one could fully remember perfume or kisses! How wearisome the reality of them would be!
Aldous Huxley
#73. On the surface, there is no distinction between our experiences - some are vivid, others opaque; some are pleasant, others cause agony upon recollection - but there is no way of knowing which are dreams and which are reality.
Silvina Ocampo
#74. Art - the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
Lawrence Durrell
#75. While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
Dweezil Zappa
#76. Internal and external world is interdependent. Your experiences and impressions of the outside world shape your thoughts and imagination, while making the choice and decisions, from your internal thought process, creates your physical reality.
Roshan Sharma
#77. The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
Orson Scott Card
#78. The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#79. I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In reality I know there would be no shops and I would kill myself.
Frankie Boyle
#80. In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.
Deepak Chopra
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