Quotes about Memory

No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.

Every step she took seemed in fact to carry her farther from the region where, once or twice, he and she had met for an illumined moment and the recognition of this fact, when its first pang had been surmounted, produced in him a sense of negative relief.

When addicts turn away from the Lord and gaze at the object of their desire, God becomes a distant memory. Since one common belief is that God is going to keep us from something good, we try to distract ourselves from remembering him.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of memory, not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.