273 Quotes About Remembering

Se è vero che non c’è maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria, è altrettanto vero che rievocare un’angoscia ad animo tranquillo, seduti quieti alla scrivania, è fonte di soddisfazione profonda.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

It’s impossible to remember what we don’t pay attention to in the first place.

Memorial Day 2020 was spent remembering almost one hundred thousand dead Americans from COVID-19.

guilt and discontent are my inheritanceA stranger to acceptance, embarrassed by attention I am stuck at forgotten crossroads everything I remember turns to ashes when touched by sunlight

Do you remember when Henry died? Do you remember how it felt when we saw Dad cry for the first time? We were six. We held his hand as Henry's casket was lowered into the ground. And Dad told us, "The death of a man is not the death of his dream." Do you remember that?

Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

And a love worth remembering is a love worth keeping.