Quotes About Reminiscence

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

He'd had a dog once, in that way he'd had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.

In Nanaville there is always in the back of my mind the understanding that I am building a memory out of spare parts and that, someday, that memory will be all that's left of me.

The worst thing about losing a friend is that you lose all the things you shared with that person

I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.

Going through a dead parent's memorabilia is a hazardous undertaking; there is a fine line between pleasure and pain.

It still makes me happy to think back to those words and that look

Memory wouldn't leave him alone.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories-points in time which time itself cannot erase.

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

Two losses, in fact. Two very dear children: Emily and Nicholas. It was true that these days there happened to be two very dear grown-ups who were also named Emily and Nicholas, but they weren't the same people. It was just as if those children had died. He'd been in mourning ever since.

Oh, sounds were what brought the past alive most clearly!

Two losses, in fact. Two very dear children: Emily and Nicholas. It was true that these days there happened to be two very dear grown-ups who were also named Emily and Nicholas, but they weren't the same people. It was just as if those children had died. He'd been in mourning ever since. And now

If only I could have my time again.

And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.

Back in Gloucester, Chris Cotter has a similar dream. Bobby appears before her, all smiles, and she says to him, "Hey, Bobby, where you been?" He doesn't tell her, he just keeps smiling and says, "Remember, Christina, I'll always love you," and then he fades away. "He's always happy when he goes and so I know he's okay," says Chris. "He's absolutely okay.

In the old days, even the most inconsequential people were impressive. You don't hear such stories these days, do you?