Quotes About Memory

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

I have seen their backs before.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.