273 Quotes About Remembering

The irony of lifeIs our greatest fear is to forget,Yet it's the only certain fateThat anything has ever met.We know one day our earthWill find itself victim to time,That nothing will be leftTo tell of your story or mine,And still through life we rushScrambling for something to remember,Perish the thought that ash be ashAnd not the memory of an ember.

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

Where is the happiness, the sunshine, where are those thick skittles of wood which crashed and bounced so nicely, where is my bicycle with the low handlebars and the big gear? It seems there's a law which says that nothing ever vanishes, that matter is indestructible; therefore the chips from my skittles and the spokes of my bicycle still exist somewhere to this day. The pity of it is that I'll never find them again - never.

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.

Time has a funny way of helping us come to terms with any event, no matter how horrible.

Don't forget, always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember her, you are not alone.