“At eighteen you sleep without memories.”

“Without a wink of sleep.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

“A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.”

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”

Helen Hooven Santmyer (1895–1986) American novelist

“People without memory are putty.”

Naomi Klein (1970) Canadian author and activist

“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.”

James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet

“Who are we without our memories?”

Marta Acosta American novelist

“It's just that… without the memories it's all meaningless.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

“I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross