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If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

— Alexander Payne

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.

— Ephraim Mirvis

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

— Maximillian Degenerez

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

— Henry Drummond

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

— Julia Ward Howe

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

— Bob Hope

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

— James Gates Percival