Quotes About Reminiscence

Presents? We already bought you a lot of things. Member when we were at the market and I bought you gum? You'member.

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

You can't go home again

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

Were you truly happy in that memory? Was it as romantic as it appeared years later? And did you only yearn for it once life got harder and you wanted to escape back to a time when your new problems didn't exist?

Oh! the old swimmin' hole! When I last saw the place,The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face.

Now Arn remembered and said that this was indeed a vivid memory, but it was also an event that was considerably better to remember than it was at the time.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash

Perfume is my memory, the chronicle of my life. —DB

One time," Gertie said. "You go out into a hurricane one time and you never hear the end of it.

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.

Midler Memories – Barbra Streisand Imagine – John

Memories are beautiful things, Boy. When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya've still got yer memories. Thank God fer this special gift of His that lets ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S'pose there ain't no price one would settle on fer the worth of memories.

I'm pretty sure my mom would have remembered giving birth to twins and then losing one somewhere along the way. When

I feel like so much has been left undone. There are friends I won't see before I leave, there are bills I still need to pay. I haven't written as much as I've wanted, and there are countless things I've said that I wish I could correct, but this is a process that will never end. When my grandmother died she left a library full of books she never finished reading. This is how I feel now.

Maybe—like what the guard said at the gate of the Sun Street—I should not pry open the bleeding wounds of the past. Maybe I should just try to keep my good old memories.

Así cómo los objetos permanecen en el cuarto aunque desaparezcan de la vista una vez apagada la luz, los ausentes rondan, tenaces, aún cuando no se piense en ellos.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Few as they had been, they were thick with memories.

Her little treasures. Each item reminding her of someone or of something.