#emo

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber. ↗

— Dave Sim

#cheek #conscious #deep #down #entirely

What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone’s memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days. ↗

— Andrea Lochen

#alzheimers #death #dementia #memory #age

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history. ↗

— Beryl Smalley

#history #reason #age

The Prince of Hell shrugged. 'Shit Happens ↗

— Jana Oliver

#funny #the-demon-trappers #funny

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#memory #objectivity #age

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations. ↗

— John Warner

#afghanistan #conditions #democratic #economically #establish

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat. ↗

— John Warner

#communities #day #defeat #delay #ever

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#blues #emotional #had #outlet #people

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#conscience #memorials #modern #our #relics

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#america #archivist #custodians #designated #memory