As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.
Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.
A man has not time to spend half his life in quarrels. If a man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
I'm surprised by how much I remember.
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.
The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.
Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.
I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.
A Politician is never remembered for how he started. He is remembered for how he finished.
One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
Remembering doesn’t help the remembered. It is for the rest of us.
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
