#memories

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."

"And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,How could I seek the empty world again?"

"I thought of you and how you love this beauty,And walking up the long beach all aloneI heard the waves breaking in measured thunderAs you and I once heard their monotone.Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond meThe cold and sparkling silver of the sea --We two will pass through death and ages lengthenBefore you hear that sound again with me."

"We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best."

"He felt like home."

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."

"The past beats inside me like a second heart."

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget."

"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."

"Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,Robin’s lost in play,But the kiss in Colin’s eyesHaunts me night and day."

"We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'"

"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."

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone"

"Sometimes, remembering hurts too much."

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."

"How do you know when it's over?""Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you."

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."