We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

The worms do not take heed of caste and rank when they feast on our ashes," the Raja said. "Your subjects will not remember you. They will not remember the shade of your eyes, the colors you favored, or the beauty of your wives. They will only remember your impression upon their hearts and whether you filled them with glee or grief. That is your immortality.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation