Elijah Wood Quotes

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

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

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

Continents of memory had been lost.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason... Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

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

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.