Quotes About Memory

For the rest of her life Rebecca Winter would apprehend the rumble of a truck engine in deep silence, or anything dimly like it, even the rhythmic solo roll of a kettledrum in a symphonic passage, as the soothing sound of salvation.

it's strange little moments that live inside you and keep peeking out the windows that open suddenly in your mind.

If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have invaded Chechnya in the 1990s, not once and not twice. To do so was the moral equivalent of postwar Germany invading western Poland. Very few Russians saw it that way - which is itself evidence of how little they know about their own history.

the Polish Institute of National Memory estimates that there were some 5.5 million wartime deaths in the country, of which about 3 million were Jews. In total, some 20 percent of the Polish population, one in five people, did not survive.

I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and not because I have forgotten them.

I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.

nothing was seen or heard of Mr. Weston; until, at last, I gave up hoping, for even my heart acknowledged it was all in vain. But still, I would think of him: I would cherish his image in my mind; and treasure every word, look, and gesture that my memory could retain;

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

She should have died on that day. Perhaps, in a way, she had.

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

The shells] do not have the meaning they once did, but, as Swann said in Remembrance of Things Past, even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them. (22)

When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of his life as a writer and his life as an oenophile, the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wines themselves.

High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

I'm left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be some day.

Chipul lui mi-a revenit aÈ™a de limpede în memorie, încât acum È™tiu c? nimeni altcineva nu va putea r?mâne atât de prezent în mine.

Os mortos recebem mais flores do que os vivos, porque o remorso é mais forte que a gratidão

Niciodat? imaginea lui nu mi-a ap?rut atât de limpede. Nu-mi trebuie nici o fotografie de-a lui, îl v?d aÈ™a de bine, aÈ™a de bine.

Vreau s? continui s? tr?iesc, chiar ?i dup? ce am murit.

I want to go on living even after death

Ode to My Fountain Pen In Memoriam My

I want to go on living even after my death!

Dead people recive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger tha gratitute