Quotes about Memory

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

We have a natural tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That's where mantras come in.

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory. That's why I keep a prayer journal. Next to my Bible, nothing is more sacred to me than my journal.

At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.