Difficult Quote by Muriel Spark

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

— Vasily Grossman

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that…

— Steve Jobs

How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

— Cicely Saunders

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions…

— Roger Rosenblatt

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

— Ramakrishna

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

— Philip Roth

it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go…

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to…

— Muriel Barbery

To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing…

— Oscar Milosz

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

— George Harrar

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone…

— Lauren DeStefano