Memory Quotes

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void." "A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old." "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." "It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present or what is present its light on what is past rather image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation" "To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it was " "The true picture of the past flits by " "Something that is loved is never lost" "A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory" "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children" "The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things will return, including the plan to abolish the past" "The nostalgia for things we have lost is more bearable than the nostalgia for things that never were" "The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned " "There has been so little joy or laughter on earth that I want to leave some memory of it" "I remember you as you were in the last autumn " "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." "We're all stories, in the end." "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably" "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"