Quotes about Memory

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

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.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

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.