Quotes about Memory

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

I want to go on living even after death

I want to go on living even after my death!

And I'd stand there trying to see it, the way you try to remember a dream, where you squint and it's right there on the tip of your psychic tongue but you can't get it back. The image is gone. That is one of the worst feelings I can think of, to have had a wonderful moment or insight or vision or phrase, to know you had it, and then to lose it.

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.