Quotes About Memory

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Anyhow, I took out my glasseye to sleep, and when I woke up I couldn't remember where I'd put it.

Quizá lo hayas olvidado, pero ni siquiera en Nuremberg sentenciaron a todo el mundo a morir.

Su madre? Dónde, señor?" "Muerto." "Hoy?" "Sí. This morning. Questo auroro. Aurora?" Italian again. Italy again, the Via Veneto, the peaches, the girls!

Los recuerdos del pasado no son recuerdos de los hechos, sino recuerdos de tu imaginación de los hechos

Nobody beloved gets out alive.

Noi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo una traccia, lasciamo la nostra impronta.

Nulla, nulla viene mai detto una volta sola - nulla!

self-laceration is never more than a memory away

He is survived by the ghost of his mother; Yetta, of Beth Something-or-other Cemetery, Neptune, New Jersey, who haunted him unceasingly during the last year of his life.

It is from his mother that Mr. Sabbath inherited his own ability never to get over anything.

fingerprint—it's no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania.

I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not once remember

Every mundane detail, quickly forgotten, marks our time on this earth. We're doing nothing. Just living.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. —Mahatma Gandhi

No te olvides en las tinieblas de lo que aprendiste en la luz»

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten

The past must be remembered before it can be overcome.

Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.