Culture Quote by Elie Wiesel

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

— Antonio Porchia

“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

— Nicholas Carr

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

— Mark Van Doren

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

— Lactantius

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

— Elie Wiesel

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

— Robert Wilson

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory is satisfied desire.

— Carlos Fuentes

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

— Varlam Shalamov

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

— Jane Austen

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

— Marcel Proust