Maria Konnikova Quotes

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

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

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Memory. My poison, my food.

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.