Unreliable Memory Quotes

#1. He past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?..

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#2. It is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

Edna O'Brien

#3. I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

Dan DeCarlo

#4. Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

Darin Strauss

#5. Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.

David Vann

#6. My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable.

Wally Lamb

#7. It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

James Grissom

#9. As you may know, in this Town, memory is unreliable and uncertain. There are things we can remember and things we cannot remember.

Haruki Murakami

#10. All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.

Ashim Shanker

#11. Everything an artist spits is art.

Kurt Schwitters

#12. Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Susannah's memory had become distressingly spotty, unreliable, like the half-stripped transmission of an old car.

Stephen King

#14. Memory can refuse to let you forget what you'd like to and run away with what you want to remember. It's an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it's both at once.

Megan Hart

#15. Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

Anna Funder

#16. People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.

Sandra Bernhard

#17. Memory, if it is anything at all, is unreliable.

Mira Bartok

#18. What is it, you fucking freak? If it was anything like that fork thing he put on me, I would most likely find a way to just kill myself. Salvation be damned

Yolanda Olson

#19. Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Ann-Marie MacDonald