Quotes about Memory

Most people have no reason to know how memory can turn rogue and feral, becoming a force of its own and one to be reckoned with.

your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

This sport is crazy, it moves along and we all have a short memory. No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.