Quotes about Memory

You know there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.

Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

May your names never go unspoken and your stories forever be told.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last forever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last for ever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

O never think the dead are dead, So long as there are men alive, The dead will live, the dead will live." That's how I feel it. Nothing sadder than that.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.