Graveyard Quote by Robert Smithson

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 acts at various levels: individual and family, social, and nation-state. Memory is not fixed: far from it, at every level memory is shifting,…

— Suzanne Keene

“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

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

— Alphonse De Lamartine

“A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the…

— Michael Puttonen

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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

— John Galsworthy

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more than 8,000…

— Holly Witchey

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is…

— Clive Barker

“Now keep in mind, memories aren’t historical archives. They’re—improvisations, really. A lot of the stuff you associate with a particular event might be factually…

— Peter Watts

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero