Quote Tag

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

To be in prison so long, it’s difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.