“Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.” MenWorldSometimesFeelingsFallMemoriesPoorBoysStonesSensesRealmsBurnedRefusalParalyzedPoor Boy Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again. Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling is like a festival outside my window.” SoulTodayTurnsMemoriesSummerStonesWindowMy SoulFestivalsKill MeArdent Author:Anna Akhmatova
“I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLooksChildrenHardMemoriesStonesAbusePainfulDo You KnowTapeRecordersChiselsPainful Things Author:Anne Heche
“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?” IfsMenHeartLyingMemoriesColdStonesMarkWarmGravesTheeMonumentMarbleWarm Heart Author:John Vance Cheney
“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.” GivingShouldFirstsRememberLawAsksFoundHouseNamesStrongMemoriesPrinciplesStruggleKnowingAtheismMinesJudgingRegretPersonalityInvolvedStonesGive MeCastsVicesPositive AtheismGenerosityGenerousSeatsTouchedNot KnowingDeprivedI RegretConstituents Author:Charles Bradlaugh
“Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.” MayMeanSelfFallChristMemoriesSinHumilityWeaknessStonesPerfectionConstantHeightDistrustClingingStepping StonesAugustine Author:James Stalker