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Memories Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
- Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
- With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe…
- Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and…
- For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for…
- What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
- If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as…
- The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory…
- Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment…
- What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
- I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with…
- Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and…
- I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
- That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
- For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
- For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has…
- I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are…
- It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also…
More Memories Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu