Quotes about Memory
I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.
— Jim Bakker
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
— Cormac McCarthy
If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.
— Lydia Millet
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
— CS Lewis
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
— Audre Lorde
The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
— Elbert Hubbard
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
— Elias Canetti
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
— Elie Wiesel
After all, God is God because he remembers.
— Elie Wiesel
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
— Elie Wiesel
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
— Elie Wiesel