Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Out of sighte, out of mynde.

Out of sighte, out of mynde.

Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.

Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.

To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people read more

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Memories are all we really own.

Memories are all we really own.