Able Quote by Moses Mendelssohn

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

— Emily Giffin

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

— Luis Bunuel

Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past,…

— Sylvia Browne

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as…

— Karen Maitland

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

— C. Wright Mills

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

— Kiera Cass

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another…

— Emil Cioran

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

— Elie Wiesel

What I'm not sure about... is if our lives had been so different from the lives that we saved. We all complete. Maybe none…

— Kathy

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of…

— Giacomo Casanova

“Surely, when looking back, our lives can, for the most part, be accounted for in our interactions with others. That is where memories are…

— Bill Carter