I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.