False Recollection Quotes

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.

See? This was how he’d gotten me to fall in love with him. At times like this he made me feel like the most treasured woman in the world. “So you don’t remember doing this to me? Naked? In the shower? On the bed? On the floor?” With Matt Damon? Okay, how had the Sarah Silverman video gotten in my head, now of all times?

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.