Quotes About Memory

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

History is a great dust heap.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Only the vanquished remember history.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.