Continuity Quote by Mark Van Doren

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

— Mark Van Doren

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by…

— Samuel Johnson

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

“Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us…

— Frederick Buechner

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all…

— Mark Lawrence

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

— David Grann

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you loved and cherished, the things you are and hope to be, and the things…

— David Kreger

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

— Jane Austen

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

— Aristotle

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires…

— Heidi Julavits