Quotes About Memory

You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn't.

They embraced and parted. They never saw each other again.

But to forget completely is an insult. A dishonor to the people who loved you—

We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.

I am very much in love with something; What it may be I can't remember; It will come to me. That was a roundabout drive in the snow, Owing to my erratic sense of direction!

JENNET: They also say that I bring back the past; For instance Helen comes Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing here throat of the dust of several thousand years She says "I loved ..."; but cannot any longer Remember names. Sad Helen. Or Alexander, wearing His imperial cobwebs and breastplate of shining worms Wakens and looks for his glasses, to find the empire Which he knows he put beside his bed.

You have cut yourself a shape on the air, which may be My scar.

They say that I bring back the past; For instance, Helen comes, Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing her throat of several thousand years, She says 'I loved . . .'; but cannot any longer Remember names. Sad Helen. Or Alexander, wearing His imperial cobwebs and breastplate of shining worms Wakens and looks for his glasses, to find the empire Which he knows he put beside his bed.

You may be decay and a platitude Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.

Sometimes Drusilla forgot she was really there, a tangible creature and not some ghost of a memory, drifting about the world, only observing.

The dream dissipated like smoke, and she tried so hard to hold it inside her heart and her memory, but like all dreams, it had never been meant to keep.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid...

Muistatko? Meteori suhahti terävänä kohden metsäämme, en pelännyt kätesi oli ympärilläni Ilma jäähtyi, eläimet kuolivat, painauduin lähemmäs sinua ja olin onnellinen

Älä viivy muistoissasi tänne tullaan suutelemaan, vielä kerran huutamaan kuin armaat, kunnioituksesta pimeyttä kohden kuolemaa

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. Heinrich Böll; "The Stories of Heinrich Böll"

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Probablemente el supuesto buen gusto preponderante en la sociedad actual prohíbe hablar del exterminio de los presos en los campos de concentración, particularmente cuando se trata de homosexuales.

His incredible memory did not desert him in this phase of his life. Mentally he was still a giant who overshadowed all around him.

To be lost from people's thoughts is like a second death.

You live in the past,' Kate said. 'You live in your grandfather's time.' But she was wrong. The past was not something we could live in, because it had nothing to do with life. It was something we lugged about, as heavy as a sack of rotting apples.

I think that everything that happens to you stays in you, even if it stays in a part of your mind where you can't find it. That's why you should never try to forget when people urge you to.