Quotes About Reminiscence

Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom.

Ich erinnerte mich, wie der Baronet mir erzählt hatte, dass

Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Denn indem ich Ihnen all dies erzaehlte, habe ich mein Leben noch einmal gelebt.

I knew she was gone, and yet the very emptiness of the hall seemed to suggest something of her presence. Even now, as an older woman, I sometimes lift the brocade cover on the mirror of my makeup stand, and have the briefest flicker of a thought that I may find her there in the glass, smirking at me.

WILLY: I was thinking of the Chevvy. Slight pause. Nineteen twenty-eight . . . when I had that red Chevvy— Breaks off. That funny? I coulda sworn I was driving that Chevvy today.

The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it.

The air is so clean out here, so fresh. Reminds me of when I was a little girl in Georgia. Then she took More from her pack and lit it.

Then she remembered.

In 1994, several students and I interviewed a ninety-five-year-old woman for an oral history project. She told us that as a teenager she went to the movies to learn the right way to kiss, and after the movie she and her boyfriend would drive to the local lovers' lane to try out the new techniques. Overhearing, the woman sitting next to her in the nursing home lounge exclaimed: "Oh, my goodness, I always thought I was so bad for doing that!

I wold describe it to you, but I think it's the kind of thing where you have to be there or at least know the people. But then again, maybe you knew the same people when you went to your high school dances, if you know what I mean.

Do you ever miss him?

I even got out my old sled and my old scarf. There is something cozy about that for me.

she fondly remembered being caught laying out several thousand Quaaludes on the Persian rug in her bedroom in her grandmother's apartment: "She looked in and said, 'Clean this stuff up and vacuum that carpet.' I loved my grandmother.

The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

Are you still forgetting things? I don't know, I can't remember, I said.

Time is a thief of memory

Capture yesterday's moments, they are future memories

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.