--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: We will never have any memory of dying…" description: "\"“We will never have any memory of dying. We were so patient about our being, noting down numbers, days, years and months, hair, and the mouths we kiss,..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df4/pablo-neruda-435_birth_we-will-never-have-any-memory-of-dying-w_1866404.jpg" --- # We will never have any memory of dying. We were so patient… ![“We will never have any memory of dying. We were so patient about our being, noting down numbers, days, years and months, hair, and the mouths we kiss, and that moment of dying we let pass without a note - we leave it to others as memory, or we leave it simply to water, to water, to air, to time…” quote by Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df4/pablo-neruda-435_birth_we-will-never-have-any-memory-of-dying-w_1866404.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df4/pablo-neruda-435_birth_we-will-never-have-any-memory-of-dying-w_1866404.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df4/pablo-neruda-435_birth_we-will-never-have-any-memory-of-dying-w_1866404.jpg) > ““We will never have any memory of dying. We were so patient about our being, noting down numbers, days, years and months, hair, and the mouths we kiss, and that moment of dying we let pass without a note - we leave it to others as memory, or we leave it simply to water, to water, to air, to time. Nor do we even keep the memory of being born, although to come into being was tumultuous and new; and now you don’t remember a single detail and haven’t kept even a trace of your first light. It’s well known that we are born. It’s well known that in the room or in the wood or in the shelter in the fishermen’s quarter or in the rustling canefields there is a quite unusual silence, a grave and wooden moment as a woman prepares to give birth. It’s well known that we were all born. But if that abrupt translation from not being to existing, to having hands, to seeing, to having eyes, to eating and weeping and overflowing and loving and loving and suffering and suffering, of that transition, that quivering of an electric presence, raising up one body more, like a living cup, and of that woman left empty, the mother who is left there in her blood and her lacerated fullness, and its end and its beginning, and disorder tumbling the pulse, the floor, the covers till everything comes together and adds one knot more to the thread of life, nothing, nothing remains in your memory of the savage sea which summoned up a wave and plucked a shrouded apple from the tree. The only thing you remember is your life." -"Births”” [Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Life’s moments of birth and death slip beyond conscious memory; only the lived experience remains. **In simple terms:** We forget birth and death, remembering only life itself. Key Takeaway Focus on living fully now. Themes mortality memory existence Mood reflective melancholic Type poetic philosophical When to use this quote - birth - death - daily routine - reflection - mindfulness Key Concepts impermanence human experience consciousness Questions to Reflect On - How does remembering only life shape your priorities? - What does forgetting birth and death teach about presence? 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