The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.

Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded...

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes — or napping, or shopping, or...

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

El margen sabe lo que el centro olvida, seguramente porque la memoria es el poder del vencido. El triunfador sabe que, como decía Nietzsche, “para ser feliz hay que olvidar”, pero ese olvido, aunque le...

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum’s dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don’t ignore the present when you take them out to play.

But then comes a time when forgetting isn’t possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become...

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built...

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things – where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance – but no one ever talks about how much effort we...

I av seen so much of this world but being happy with you was my favourite memory and if somebody asks me what I will choose in the other world .. I will simply answer...

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own...

Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that...

Some people say it’s easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.