Driven Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

— Anonymous

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

— Baltasar Gracian

“The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a…

— Rebecca Solnit

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

— Stacy Aumonier

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

— Jean Paul

A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel…

— Eugene Ionesco

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond…

— Anonymous

Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.

— Jean Paul Richter

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

— Augusta Jane Evans

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”

— Margaret Atwood

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of…

— Paulo Coelho