Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

History takes time... History makes memory.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Never, ever forget history.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

The past is where its supposed to be.

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

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We are tomorrow's past.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

When I hear or see his name, I see the Glen I've always known. There will never, ever be another Glen Campbell.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

My brother is in me. When we remember somebody else, in a certain way they are still alive. I see my brother - he is still young - looking to the Dolomites where we did our ascents. I remember those moments, so he is still together with me.

I don't think you can erase history.

If you lose, no one will remember you, but if you're the champion, they will always remember you.

I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.

Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.