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Quotes About Memory

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
~ Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.
~ Frederic Chopin
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.
~ Deepak Chopra
As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Happiness is health and a short memory!
~ Audrey Hepburn
Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.
~ David Simon
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
~ Susan Sontag
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
~ Martin Scorsese
I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.
~ Terry Bradshaw
BELINDA: People say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.
~ Billy London, A Life Sublime
Memory fill the night. Please help make my pain and memories light. In your arms I find comfort. Guide me in my days. Help me Lord, this night
~ Brent M. Jones
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
~ Robert E. Lee
Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
~ Adolf Hitler
Happy is the nation without a history.
~ Cesare Beccaria
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
~ Eric Hobsbawm
History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.
~ Joachim Peiper
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
~ John Guare
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
~ Robert Smithson
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
~ Zadie Smith, White Teeth
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
~ Joseph Stalin