Memory Quotes

"Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." "I am here to bear witness. My testimony will burn to the end of the world" "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it" "There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past" "There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them." "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "Reader, memory inevitably fails you." "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were" "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument" "History is written by the victors" "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have" "Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments." "The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you" "Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened" "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten" "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" "Happiness is good health and a bad memory"