Quotes About Reminiscence

Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154

looking back at him

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

Tom Wolfe was right," he reflected. "You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

You were never in Texas," she says.He remembers the house on that strange treeless residential street, the green night growing up from the prairie, the flowers in the window, and says, "Absolutely I was.""Doing what?""Serving Uncle.""Oh, in the Army; well that doesn't count. Everybody's been to Texas with the Army.""You order whatever you think is good," Rabbit tells Tothero.

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Memories should not be forgotten, they should always be remembered.

Everyone has those nights when you lay down and just think about those moments in life, you would do anything to re-live...

The best memories are the ones that you try to explain but in the end...you just say..'You had to be there.'

I wish my life is like a tape recorder so I can save all my happy memories and play it in time of my loneliness.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

There are moments in your life when you really miss someone that you want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. Hope you dream of that someone.

Hold on to the memories, because life changes so quickly that sometimes that's all you're left with.

Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.

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