Quotes about Memory
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
— Martha Graham
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.
— Lady Gaga
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
— Elie Wiesel
He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.
— Marcus Aurelius
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
— Marcus Aurelius
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Cicero
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
— Cicero
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
— Cicero
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
— Margaret Atwood
I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.
— Hilaire Belloc
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
— Desmond Tutu
Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.
— Anonymous