Ovid
The lost hour never returns.
Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
W.S. Merwin
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color
W.S. Merwin
What you do not have you find everywhere.
William Maxwell
In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we take.
Philip Larkin
What will survive of us is love.
Stanley Kunitz
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Milan Kundera
Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in
eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in
redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false
faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten
and nothing will be redressed.