Quotes About Memory

The only way to kill death is through photography.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

I want to go on living even after death!

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

Not all of me shall die.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

For the living, death is thievery.

I shall not altogether die.

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.