Death Quote by Joshua Foer

“Our culture is an edifice built of external memories, a way of fending off mortality.”

— Jonathan Foer

“If memory is our means of preserving that which we consider most valuable, it is also painfully linked to our own transience. When we…

— Joshua Foer

“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.”

— Soheir Khashoggi

“Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.”

— Tzvetan Todorov

“We enshrine things in memory very differently from how we experience them in real time.”

— Jennifer Senior

“Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.”

— Joseph Goldstein

“Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory.”

— Laurent Binet

“Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”

— Italo Calvino