China Quote by Yang Jisheng

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at…

— Oscar Wilde

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

— Mark Van Doren

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all…

— Mark Lawrence

“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

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

“There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to…

— Susan Sontag

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

— Varlam Shalamov

“Whether individual, collective, or even written history, memory is not a fixed, passive storage system: it is dynamic, changing according to different circumstances. The…

— Suzanne Keene

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human…

— Stacy Aumonier

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend…

— Primo Levi