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Quotes About Memories

It has provided not only physical but also psychological sanctuary. It has been a guardian of identity. Over the years, its owners have returned prom periods away and, on looking around them, remembered who they were.
~ Alain de Botton
And so the skiing holiday (and much of my life generally) proceeded: anticipation in the morning, anxiety in the actuality, and pleasant memories in the evening.
~ Alain de Botton
nine years earlier. Life was still
~ Alan Brennert
She remembers the pain of losing him, but she smiles at the happiness he brought her, cherishing the joy she felt at his side.
~ Alan Brennert
Let the things of long ago drift away on the water
~ Alan Brennert
Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end.
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
He saw that first love had come with a bundle of other firsts, which he took hold of like a wonderful but worrying bouquet.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
It is hard to do justice to old pleasures that cannot be revived—we seem half to disown our youthful selves, who loved and treasured them.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
~ Alan Lightman
In another house, a man sits alone at his table, laid out for two. Ten years ago, he sat here across from his father, was unable to say that he loved him, searched through the years of his childhood for some moment of closeness, remembered the evenings that silent man sat alone with his book, was unable to say that he loved him, was unable to say that he loved him.
~ Alan Lightman
Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.
~ Alan Moore
inverted memories of this immediate revelation, memories that in some puzzling fashion one might have before their subject had occurred. The
~ Alan Moore
Ahogy öregszel, más színben látsz majd mindent. A nagy dolgok valahogy eltörpülnek. Végül egyszer?en lemosod magadról az ilyen emlékeket.
~ Alan Moore
Oh, we know Damocles from way back," Onosa said, waving her hand. "You do?" "Yes, indeed, Valkyrie. We're old friends. Practically. Almost. We tried to kill him once, but I'm sure he's forgotten about that. It was ages ago." "Why did you try to kill him?" Skulduggery asked. "Because we knew him." "A good enough reason as any.
~ Derek Landy
I don't want to think about living in a world where you're not in it, all right?
~ Derek Landy
I lived there as a boy and know the coalGlittering in its shed, late-afternoonLambency informing the deal table,The ceiling cradled in a radiant spoon.I must be lying low in a room there,A strange child with a taste for verse,While my hard-nosed companions dream of fireAnd sword upon parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse.
~ Derek Mahon
This was the end of some of those friendships. They were left behind, artifacts of youth, boxed up with my comic books, my sketchbooks ans journals, and the rest of my teenage mementos. Only a select few of my high school comrades, like Mike, would remain lifelong pals.
~ Derf Backderf
How often do parents nostalgically reflect on their children when they were younger? It is easy to look at photographs and miss those cute, plump-faced, miniature versions of the gawky and resentful specimens they have become.
~ Derren Brown
The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
~ Deryck Whibley
When you are angry with your mother, you forget all the wonderful things she has done for you. And when you are happy with your father, you forget all the strict discipline he has imposed upon you. Right?
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
But a lot is occurring in your mind—memories resurface as ghosts and imagination descends like a demon. That is why you suffer.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.
~ Dhani Harrison
cocktails after a day of
~ Di Morrissey
There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.
~ Dian Fossey