Memory, then, is not the pencil with which the outline of a life is drawn but the eraser — something as true of our personal memory as it is of our collective memory, which contains everything we know as culture.
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Culture, Life & Society, Memory
The exercise of our memory does not bring us closer to the past but draws us farther away.
Author: Sally Mann | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Memory, Personal Improvement
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
Author: Gabriel García Márquez | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Experience, Insight, Life & Society, Memory, Personal Improvement
Transience makes a ghost out of each experience. There was never a dawn that did not drop down into noon, never a noon which did not fade into evening, and never an evening that did not get buried in the graveyard of the night. […] Out of the fiber and density of each experience transience makes a ghost. The future, rich with possibility, becomes a … [ Read more ]
Author: John O’Donohue | Subjects: Experience, Life & Society, Memory
We both know what memories can bring, they bring diamonds and rust.
Author: Joan Baez | Subject: Memory
History is perpetually suspicious of memory, and its true mission is to suppress and destroy it.
Author: Pierre Nora | Subjects: History, Memory