“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.”
“I’d trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
― Kris Kristofferson
“Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.”
― Ann Druyan
“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
