“...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.”

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.”

“The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.”

“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”

“Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”

“I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”

“Regrets came up and asked me if Id like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldnt leave this relationship empty handed.”