Quotes about Memory

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.