Action Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No…

— Elie Wiesel

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Mark Van Doren

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

— Augusta Jane Evans

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory…

— W. G. Sebald

A memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

— Anonymous

Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides…

— Mark Van Doren

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by…

— Samuel Johnson

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

— Anonymous

“Memory is a great servant, but really bad master. When memory plays its role as a master, it limits our choices. It choices doors…

— Ika Natassa