Quotes About Memory

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

History is a bucket of ashes.

History is not what happened but what is written down

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.