Quotes about Memory

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

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.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.