“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
The Philippine Star http://www.philstar.com/headlines/708346/afp-garci-help-bring-closure-fraud-issue <br class="br">2011
“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Critic as Artist
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You
“People should remember history so they can truly cherish what they have now.”
Hung Hsiu-chu (1948) Taiwanese politician
Hung Hsiu-chu (2015) cited in " Hung dismisses ‘immediate unification’ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/09/13/2003627609" on Taipei Times, 13 September 2015
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variant: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Dmitry Peskov (1967) Russian politician
"'The traitors will disappear on their own' Dmitry Peskov on the coming 'purification of Russian society'" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/18/the-traitors-will-disappear-on-their-own, Meduza, 18 March 2022
“Oh, always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.
-Nanny Ogg”
Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum
Source: Carpe Jugulum