#remembering

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death-of-a-loved-one #memories #remembering #death

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#better #death #drink #eat #etc

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#remembering #visual #art

I miss the smell of him. I miss his lips and his strong arms. I miss him. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#lips-touch #love #miss #remembering #scent

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#him #how #i #little #man

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#different #different things #knowing #remembering #rules

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am! ↗

— Judith Guest

#back #bring #center #forgetting #i

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#being #being honest #discipline #every #full

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#life #remembering #worth

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#different #engagement #every #i #i think