I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
— Leo Buscaglia
Almighty Memory Loss quotations
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
Eat more berries. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.
There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa.
Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out.
To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others.
It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And though it may be hard to believe right now Know that the pain will ease with time And you will look back at the memories of your dear one And smile and remember a life well lived and loved.
A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery.
Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.
I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal.
"If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be forced to Taser you." He looked at what I had in my hand. "That's a phone." "I have an app. You'll probably experience nerve damage. Slight memory loss.
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me.
When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
You've got to be careful smoking weed. It causes memory loss. And also, it causes memory loss.
A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.
If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.