“Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.” MenStillsRealDiesFatherMemoriesForeverGreenFleshBelovedValleys Author:Irving Pichel
“Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.” MemoriesLike YouIllusionBonesFlesh Book:Absalom, Absalom! Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.” MayLittlesFeelingsBodyRememberWaterMemoriesFlowFilledFingersBonesFleshCellsStreamsTouchedJointsSponges Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.” PeopleLittlesPastMemoriesToo MuchGrewSkinsDiedHeavyFleshSheerMisunderstoodAccumulationWitheredExperiences And Memories Author:Dorothy Gilman