"Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were."

Memory, Loss, Dream, Reflection

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"Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were."

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"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."

David Levithan, American Author

Memory, Life, Past, Emotion

"'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone."

Thomas More, English Author

Memory, Summer

"...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, endlessly traveling to Honolulu."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Memory, Travel, Time, Space

"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Memory, Love, Connection, Presence

"I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Memory, Crows, Sound, Emotion

"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."

Nalini Singh, New Zealander Author

Memory, Persistence, Loss, Truth

"I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Memory, Cherish, Emotion, Love

"The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist

Memory, Choice, Adventure, Risk, Emotion

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

Memory, Names

"Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legsand arms used to be. That's how his mindfelt-like his missing memories were aching."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Memory, Truth, Life, Regret, Power

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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

Class

"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

Paradox

"Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

Hedonism

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

Compassion

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Evil

"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."

Man

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

Love

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

Pleasure

"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

Perception

"Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!"

Childhood