Memory Quote by John Steinbeck

“people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

— John Steinbeck

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all…

— John Steinbeck

“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”

— Albert Camus

“Another hundred years were ground up and churned, and what had happened was all muddied by the way folks wanted it to be --…

— John Steinbeck

“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the…

— Missouri Williams

“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.”

— Zachary Frerichs

“it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing, but contemplate the rain”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“...the reality of the days washed away the possibilities of the past, and time moved on.”

— Anonymous

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner

“All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by…

— William Faulkner

“Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life…

— George Orwell

“Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.”

— George R. R. Martin