Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind

- Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

- Marcel Proust

Memory is more indelible than ink.

- Anita Loos

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

- Ally Condie

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

- Christopher Paolini

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

- Cassandra Clare

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

- Cormac McCarthy

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

- Rita Mae Brown

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

- Guy de Maupassant

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever

- Anonymous

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

- Charles Kettering

We do not remember days, we remember moments

- Cesare Pavese

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King Jr.