Heart Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the scavengers took…

— Neil Gaiman

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the…

— Walter Benjamin

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

— John Galsworthy

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

— Marcel Proust

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

— Arundhati Roy

“Middle-aged memory [is] an instrument of torture: you reach for the fruit of memory and it vanishes, to appear when you no longer want…

— Castle Freeman Jr

“Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.”

— David Albahari

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister