Quotes About Memory

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.

I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.