Quotes About Memory

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Each day is a little bit of history

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.