“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay”

“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.”

“But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.”

“There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory.”

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.”

“The height of the adventure is the height
Of country where two village cultures faded
Into each other. Both of them are lost.”

“Memories fade into dust.”

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”

“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”

“Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.”