Elie Wiesel Quotes

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

What you do does matter. And people do remember it and feel it.

It's nice to be able to go back and reflect and see how much my dad meant to people.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Everyone remembers the last thing you did.

Though I may not have left a huge mark, I did create some ripples. People would recollect there was an actor called Arbaaz Khan.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." . . . And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

The past is more than a memory.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.