Memory Quotes

“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from losing them.”

“Loss of memory is the great reward of retirement.”

“No one / bears witness for the / witness.”

“Being a part of that '86 team was something special. We were a family.”

“A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh.”

“The best evidence we have of the past is our memories. But memories are neurological states in the present.”

“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.”

“Left to itself, every mental content gradually loses its capacity for being revived, or at least suffers loss in this capacity.”

“You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.”

“I'm drinking to forget. The only trouble is I can’t remember what it is I’m supposed to be forgetting.”

“Exile is a state of mind. It is a loss of memory.”

“For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of misfortune is to have been happy.”

“Out of sight, out of mind.”

“The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.”

“Memory is the stepping-stone to thinking.”

“The principal problem of human memory is not storage or retrieval but... organization.”

“A nation that forgets its past has no future.”

“It is very important for a country to have a memory.”

“Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything.”

“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”