Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Quotes
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCMemory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109