“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”

“Shared memory is evil.”

“Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.”

“I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.”

“Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (…)”

“The conscience has a long memory as does the person you inflicted pain upon to create the memory in the first place.”

“the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.”

“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory…”

“This time during the Second World War is part of my history, part of my memory, but it is the latest part of my memory, so the memories of each human being goes much more back, it goes to the dinosaurs, even later [Kiefer means: earlier].... I think we even remember geological times. So this is one little part of our / of mine memory”