I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory…

“The day that I left my home, I had prayed that my children would forget me. I wanted to spare them the pain of…

— Karen Maitland

“The tone of voice cut through him like a diamond saw. He could dimly remember being scolded by his mother when he was small;…

— Terry Pratchett

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

— William Hazlitt

You are remembered more when you are dead.

— Nishan Panwar

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how…

— Denis Norden

Every tear running down my face now counts for one bad memory remembered.

— Berta

“His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory - if anyone remembered him.”

— James Joyce

“the thirty-some years since then, his mind had eliminated that experience from his memory. He remembered it as if he’d read it in a…

— Isabel Allende

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is…

— Vijay Prashad

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime.…

— Elizabeth Strout

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well…

— Mary McAleese

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

— Vijay Prashad

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn