1. You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can then express your pent-up feelings about the memory and continue on your path to recovery. Think of the flashback as a clue to the next piece of work. No matter how painful, try to view it as a positive indication that you are now ready and willing to remember.-Beverly Engel
2. The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and a lie to discard.-Christina Enevoldsen
3. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.-Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Memory is more indelible than ink.-Anita Loos
5. By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.-Toba Beta
6. We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.-Georges Duhamel
7. Memory is the mother of all wisdom.-Aeschylus
8. The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It’s the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.-Steven Soderbergh
9. Flashback in film rarely works.-Susan Hill
10. The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.-Milan Kundera
11. Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.-Marcel Proust
12. Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.-Vladimir Nabokov
13. God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.-James M. Barrie
14. The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.-Pittacus Lore
15. Every man’s memory is his private literature.-Aldous Huxley
16. Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.-William Faulkner
17. Memory is the happiness of being alone.-Lois Lowry
18. Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.-Salman Rushdie
19. Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.-Jonathan Safran Foer
20. Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.-Paul Auster
21. Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.-Jodi Picoult
22. Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.-Jeanette Winterson
23. Memories aren’t stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.-Jodi Picoult
24. Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.-Michel de Montaigne
25. Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.-Rose Kennedy
26. Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.-Haruki Murakimi
27. It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.-Barbara Kingsolver
28. The work of memory collapses time.-Walter Benjamin