Quotes About Memory

the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don't understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip—even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do.

The preacher said Madge's spirit belonged to Irvington, and Irvington must be there for her memory: "Let us not forget that in coming here today we have not fulfilled our obligations of friendship," he said. In the days, weeks, and years ahead, the family "will need us as never before

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Si esto es un hombre y La tregua (Club Círculo de Lectores, 2004), de Primo Levi,

The X1 Search program: instant, precision searching by independent criteria (not just Google-style search string goulash) to pinpoint my files and emails going back to the 1980s. As info explodes, and my memory doesn't get better, it's a godsend.

Álbum para «activarse»: «Cold Day Memory», de Sevendust.

Write everything down because it's all very fleeting.

information without emotion isn't retained.

bien. O podemos recordar el pasado en el que todo estaba bien. Así es como la gente sale de estas cosas.

Rodwell wandered into No Man's Land and put a bullet through his ears. On Sunday, Robert sat on his bed in the old hotel at Bailleul and read what Rodwell had written. To my daughter, Laurine; Love your mother. Make your prayers against despair. I am alive in everything I touch. Touch these pages and you have me in your fingertips. We survive in one another. Everything lives forever. Believe it. Nothing dies. I am your father always.

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.

Forgiveness is not forgetting

The word remember is not a "memory" word, but a "promise" word

Every day I carry the weight of your absence" The Perfume Thief

The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned.

But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can grasp, but as 5.7 million times one. This does not mean some generic image of a Jew passing through some abstract notion of death 5.7 million times. It means countless individuals who nevertheless have to be counted, in the middle of life...

Between July 1942 and June 1943, only 4,705 Jews were admitted to the United States—fewer than the number of Warsaw Jews who were killed on a given day at Treblinka in summer 1942.

Who," asked Hitler, "remembers the Red Indians?" For Hitler, Africa was the source of the imperial references but not the actual site of empire; eastern Europe was that actual site, and it was to be remade just as North America had been remade.

Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the Great Terror of 1937–38, or of the purges in communist eastern Europe in the 1940s and '50s, people who were living in fear of repression remembered how their neighbors treated them. A smile, a handshake, or a word of greeting—banal gestures in a normal situation—took on great significance.