Quotes About Reminiscence

We might miss the days of being unreachable.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Beatriss looked away, fighting tears. She gripped their hands. "I'm forgetting what the truth is, friends," she said. "We were here, Lady Beatriss. We saw it all, so when you forget what the truth is, you come to us and we'll remind you.

And in that dark silence where it seems that everyone is someplace but me, it all comes back.

Mirad, recuerdo el amor, eso es lo que la gente no entiende.

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

A saudade é a única dor que me faz esquecer as outras dores.

Todo nuestro presente estaba hecho de pasado.

The more the girls heard, the more it became clear that Uncle Jake and their straight-laced father had been first-class juvenile delinquents.

A photo album of his parents

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!

this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can't remember if you're recalling the actual memory or the memory of the photograph. Or perhaps the photograph is the only reason you remember that moment. (p.85)

Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 )

Having a record of the past can make a great contribution to the quality of life. It frees us from the tyranny of the present, and makes it possible for consciousness to revisit former times.

Turn, O you years_roll again, you vanished years_sail, Ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth! Not one word of it will I alter, not my least action will I amend. O brittle pen, smooth papyrus, give me back my folly and my youth!

youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

For I was afraid of memory; I knew that our memories and reminiscences are like icebergs. We see only the tips in passing, but the mass of land under water slips by unseen and inaccessible. We do not feel their immeasurable weight simply because they lie submerged in time, as in water. But, if we carelessly find ourselves in their way, we shall run aground against our own past and be shipwrecked.

Nostalgia is longing for a place you'd never move back to.

When she was there, she had not loved it enough.

But I was born today, and isn't it funny how no ones gets to remember that moment and who was there? It's all what's told to you. You're here now. You are a mother to me.

The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have.

And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

ESCRIC DE TU Escric de tu i de mi per recordar-te. La tarda em pesa suaument als muscles i dibuixa l'espai en què et retrobo sense tenir-te. Tota l'esperança se'm fa desig intens a la mirada i l'ombra de tu pels marges solitaris. Escric de tu i de mi, des d'aquest angle de tarda que ens pertany perquè vam fer-ne l'àmbit fecund i clar dels nostres somnis.