Belief Quote by Stacy Aumonier

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

— Michael Ignatieff

“It's not true that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. At least, not all of it. Some of your life might…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Augusta Jane Evans

One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life

— Anonymous

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.

— William Wordsworth

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

— Vasily Grossman

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

— Diana Gabaldon

But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Would I be happy if I discovered that I could go to heaven forever? And the answer is no. Consider this argument. Think about…

— E.O. Wilson

“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