Memory Quote by George Konrád

“I remembered when I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trunk as a coffin for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When my parents died I could remember them through the building that we lived in. Buildings aren’t so much about recollecting time as about…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs,…

— Kate Atkinson

“In the face of a nation that shamelessly assaults the very marrow of our bones, memory is but a pale gray field.”

— Liu Xiaobo

“You didn't bury bodies and dig them up years later. It was best to take the same approach with memories”

— T. L. Hines

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been…

— Rupert Thomson

“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of…

— Anne Spollen

“Buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I wanted to learn more about its past but felt this overwhelming need to leave. I remember hearing somewhere that buildings can hold memories…

— Hadinet Tekie

“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.”

— Steven Magee

“it was as if these memories had been hibernating in him, not dead but merely dormant, weathering out, and now they stumbled out of…

— Anthony Doerr