Quotes About Reminiscence

We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers.

He realized that he was thinking of his past, as if certain days of it were spread before him, demanding to be seen again.

I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack though

Memories, James thought, thank God we have them. They help us to recall what's long gone, and we can live again in the past with those we once loved.

long-ago lifetime.

We had each spent two years with what Uncle Sam at the time affectionately referred to as the Muj, more recently regarded with less warmth as the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and I hadn't seen him, or missed him, since then.

Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .

Why do you suppose it is... that the idea of being young again is so appealing when being young the first time around was such hell?

As the columnist Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

She looks at him for a long moment, then sighs deeply. "Silver," she says, her voice tinged with a profound sadness with which he is all too familiar. All the things you can't get back, all the things you can never make right. No matter what happens after, you'll always carry them with you.

We need to talk—both to remember and to forget.

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.

And if ever you wanted to quit your impatient girl truly, and our little story had to be stored away in a room that's only sometimes remembered, that's still a room I'd want, and I'd go there now and again, like some room in an old hotel on a seafront someplace where two sinners did something they shouldn't. Do you mind what I am telling you? It is the God's honest truth. Even if I never saw you or heard from you again, you'd already have been the miracle of my life.

Leafpaw felt that he reminded her of some other cat, but however hard she stared at him, she could not remember who.

Fading echoes

E come la riconosco? Sono successi dieci anni, un sacco di tempo. - "Guaglio", il tempo non è un sacco, magari è un bosco. Se hai conosciuto la foglia, poi riconosci l'albero. Se l'hai vista negli occhi, la ritroverai. Pure se è passato un bosco di tempo.

Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion.

I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.

Yes, I used to miss my childhood, but I did get a chance to relive it through Esha and Ahaana.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.