Quotes about Memory
One would not drink of the cup of forgetfulness if one could.
- LM Montgomery
When we forget god - He remembers us
- LM Montgomery
She was still haunted by the ghost of the cake she had drowned.
- LM Montgomery
To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Two sources of religious thinking are given us: memory (tradition) and personal insight. We must rely on our memory and we must strive for fresh insight.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- Abraham Lincoln
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
We cannot escape history.
- Abraham Lincoln
In the good days remember also death.
- Aesop
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
- Alain de Botton
Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.
- Donald Justice