Quotes about Memory

The reel of your real life unwound only once.

You were never in Texas," she says.He remembers the house on that strange treeless residential street, the green night growing up from the prairie, the flowers in the window, and says, "Absolutely I was.""Doing what?""Serving Uncle.""Oh, in the Army; well that doesn't count. Everybody's been to Texas with the Army.""You order whatever you think is good," Rabbit tells Tothero.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.