Quotes About Memory

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

Death preserves an ideal.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

Only the dead has seen th end of war

One day u will be the message...a message for those who still alive...

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that.

You will live in me always. Your words, your heart, your soul are all part of me. My heart is full of your memories. Thank you for the gift of your life. I will never forget you.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.