“Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.”

“The worst thing about death is that you once were, and now you are not.”

“If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.”

“I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass:
All things left were emptiness.”

“Somewhere we went wrong
We were once so strong
Our love is like a song
You can't forget it at all.”

“Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.”

“When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy. Very likely if they said this in the Kensington Gardens, they were standing looking at a fairy all the time. The reason they were cheated was that she pretended to be something else. This is one of their best tricks.”

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.”

“Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”