Erasing History Quotes

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.