Quotes about Memory

Even if you attempt to ignore the loss, the emotional experience of it is implanted in your heart and mind, and no eraser will remove it.

Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things exactly the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.

God buries His workmen, but not His work.

Forgiveness is not forgetting

The word remember is not a "memory" word, but a "promise" word

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And horror stalked before each man, And terror crept behind.

We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!

Sweet, there is nothing left to say But this, that love is never lost