Charles Stross Quotes

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

Memory - the very skin of life.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

People are machines of forgetfulness

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

For as long as I can remember, I've had memories.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

I have a terrible memory.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

I don’t remember.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'