Quotes About Reminiscence

Do you believe at times that a moment chooses you to remember it entirely & tell about it — so that it may live again? — Laure-Anne Bosselaar, from "Lately," Vox Populi (11 June 2022)

You cannot miss what you never had, but you can miss forever the man you loved and lost.

I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

They were coming, on wings from far away, all the pictures and voices, smells, tastes, all the everything from the past was flying toward me as fast as it could.

You may recall a Jules Feiffer cartoon—you may recall a hundred

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...

The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn't there, who just popped on your mind.

Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.

Did I ever tell you about the time....

But we don't get to choose what sticks. How many times I have run my fingers along a picket fence and thought, This! I will remember this moment always! and all that remains is the memory of a desire to hold on to a memory.

As a matter of habit, I stop and pick up seashells that interest me, and I always put the ones I really like in a lovely Baccarat bowl in my living room. It's my way of remembering that I once was young and carefree.

Life was good back then, in the crappy, oppressive way life is good for fourteen year olds, which is to say, it completely sucked but seems pretty good in the obscuring glare of nostalgia.

When he dipped his cake in his tea - a disgusting business - the whole of his life came back to him. When I did it nothing happened.

Three syllables and three thousand memories.

Sometimes she dreamed about him. They were good dreams......Some days she could barely remember what he looked like. Other days, she found him in the face of every man she saw.

"Why, that's Cruella de Vil," said Mrs. Dearly. "We were at school together. She was expelled for drinking ink."

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

My friend Doggie was gone, and I never even got a chance to say good-bye to him for keeps.

When I get you back, I'm gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you." He tries to hold my eyes with his own. 'Like the 1950s.

I like to save things. Not important things like whales or people or the environment. Silly things. Porcelain bells, the kind you get at souvenir shops. Cookie cutters you'll never use, because who needs a cookie in the shape of a foot? Ribbons for my hair. Love letters. Of all the things I save, I guess you could say my love letters are my most prized possession.

I don't know if i'll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have… this feeling. That you'll always be there. Here.