When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did!
(Bert Kalmar, U.S. screenwriter, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Leo McCarey. Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx), Duck Soup, proclaiming his loyalty to Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) as he and his men hold back enemy forces (1933).)
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
(James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet, editor. speech, Oct. 6, 1884, Birmingham, England. "On Democracy," Democracy and Other Addresses (1886).)
I don't avoid pain by not remembering something; I try to remember.... Memory is empowering, and it's what gives you your sense of continuity in the world.
(Melinda Worth Popham (b. 1944), U.S. author. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 20, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).)