Variant: It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
Source: Silk
Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
“When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die … Evil cannot be overcome by evil.”
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 2
“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”
As quoted in Time (28 August 1972).
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6
“Experience is something you get… after you need it.”
Source: Simply Irresistible
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers. With somebody else, it may be a boy scout master. With somebody else, it will be a clergyman. Somebody else, an uncle who was wiser than the father. I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.
My job was to live through Friday afternoon, get through the week, and eat something. And then along came these differential experiences that you don't look for, that you don't plan for, but, boy, you better not miss them. The things that make you bigger than you are. The things that give you a vision. The things that give you a challenge.
