Awareness Quote by Richard Rohr

“What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past,…

— Marjorie Garber

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is…

— Anne Rice

“Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.”

— Keith Donohue

“if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be…

— Neil Postman

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

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything.…

— Emil Cioran

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel