Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem. ― Kurt Cobain

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ― Aeschylus

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. – Thornton Wilder

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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

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It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating. – Fredrik Backman

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It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

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The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again—and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass.

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