Quotes about Memory

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

To memorize Scripture effectively, you must have a plan. The plan should include a selection of well-chosen verses, a practical system for learning those verses, a systematic means of reviewing them to keep them fresh in your memory, and simple rules for continuing Scripture memory on your own.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.