Famous quotes containing the words memory and/or loss:
“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)