# Quote — Keith Laumer, A Trace of Memory

> I wanted to tell him that all lives are the same length when viewed from the foreshortened perspective of death, and that life, like music, requires no meaning but only a certain symmetry.

- Author: [Keith Laumer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer.md)
- Book: [A Trace of Memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-trace-of-memory.md)
- Page: 253
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Keith_Laumer#A_Trace_of_Memory_(1963)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-trace-of-memory/i-wanted-to-tell

## More from this book

> Foster shook his head. “The inherent inertia of the human mind,” he said. “How it fights to resist new ideas.”

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-trace-of-memory/foster-shook-his.md)

> I’m arguing with myself and I can’t tell who’s winning.

p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-trace-of-memory/im-arguing-with.md)

> I know; you don’t consider it impossible. That’s the trouble with you; you don’t consider anything impossible. It would make life a lot easier for me if you’d let me rule out a few items—like leprechauns who hang out at Stonehenge.

p. 61 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/a-trace-of-memory/i-know-you.md)