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

Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman - “Why do people have memories? It would...” 1

Similar quotes

“It was easier to scribble over memories a person didn't want to remember, so they searched for these people - the abused and neglected.”

Sean DeLauder
Read more

“You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.”

Franny Billingsley
Read more

“Dying would have been so much easier.”

Megan Whalen Turner
Read more

“The public has a short memory. That's why all these big stars do these crazy, terrible things and two years later they're back in the biz, you know. 'Cause the public has a short memory. Let me give you a little test, okay? This is my thesis -- the public has a short memory and, like-- How many people remember, a couple of years ago, when the Earth blew up? How many people? See? So few people remember. And you would think that something like that, people would remember. But NOOO! You don't remember that? The Earth blew up and was completely destroyed? And we escaped to this planet on the giant Space Ark? Where have you people been? And the government decided not to tell the stupider people 'cause they thought that it might affect-- [dawning realization, looks around] Ohhhh! Okay! Uh, let's move on!”

Steve Martin
Read more

“Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities, whole civilizations. Nothing lasts. So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”

Isaac Marion
Read more