Embers Quote by William Wordsworth

Far away, long ago, glowing dim as an ember; things my heart used to know, things it yearns to remember.

— Anastasia

Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by…

— Edward Young

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal…

— Robert Holdstock

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

— Arna Bontemps

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

— Wendell Berry

“If our prehistoric ancestors visited us today they would find that while we now dwell in different huts, the hearts that dwell in us…

— Agona Apell

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

— William Gibson

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

— Kevin Brockmeier

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs…

— William Batchelder Greene

“What best remind us of a person is precisely what we had forgotten (because it was of no importance, and we therefore left it…

— Marcel Proust

“We don't recognize those times in our existence, when fate rolls around to sever relationships, to remove an object of such immense magnitude from…

— Madison Thorne Grey