Memory Quotes

"There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past" "Sometimes you will never know the value of something until it becomes a memory." "History is written by the victors" "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument" "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were" "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" "Reader, memory inevitably fails you." "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them." "The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done." "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it" "I am here to bear witness. My testimony will burn to the end of the world" "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant" "I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you" "Life goes on but the scars remain the same " "Even grief has a little calendar so you don't have to remind it where it lives" "What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"