memory
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
“The heart is able to bury deep and well what it urgently desires to forget.”
“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
“Over Babiy Yar there are no memorials.”
“The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery.”
“Their glittering reflections on the shimmering river keep undulating in my heart.”
“Yet is it more honourable, and just, and upright, and pleasing, to treasure in the memory good acts than bad.”
“That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude.”
“We are the United States of Amnesia; we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“The only true paradise is paradise lost.”
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future, too.”
“An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned.”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.”