Quotes About Reminiscence

There is always a romance that we leave behind in London, and always London enlocks that flower for us, and keeps it fresh, so that when we come back we have our romance again.

Pero lo peor, pese a todo, no es que haya muchas inexactitudes y mentiras, pues eso quizá sea una característica de todas las memorias. Lo peor es que recordar y poner en el papel lo recordado no trae alivio alguno. En vez de disminuir, las preguntas se multiplican, y la angustia se hace más honda.

I thought about that old saying, how we can never go home again. But I think it's more like a piece of us stays behind when we leave -- a piece we can never reclaim, one that awaits our next visit and demands that we remember.

A collection tells the story of the collector. A collection is a shoring up against the things that have gone missing. So much goes missing.

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places that this heart of mine embraces all day through.

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

There are so many young fans out there who have only seen me wrestle on tape.

The first ever VHS I ever owned, my brother and I, was WrestleMania VII. We watched that thing to bits - I think the tape chewed itself up.

They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this. She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other.

Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.

Only, sometimes, in the text of a book here and there, we tap the page with a finger and say, "This is what my lost days were like. Something like this.

Why were memories so independent? So jealous of corroborating detail?

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her.

Rien ne vaut les souvenirs et les illusions de l'adolescence.

She forgot the tune of the quadrilles; she no longer saw the liveries and appointments so distinctly; some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her.

El verdadero miedo es como una reminiscencia de los terrores fantásticos de antaño. Un

If I shut my eyes it returns: the evocation of a whole wood, a whole world of wood-darkness and flowers and birds and late summer silence, of a million leaves turning mellowly to death. It becomes then more than the mere memory of a wood, the first and the best wood I have ever known. It is the redistillation of another and more lovely world.

Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air? Then all we are left with are stories.

Memory makes demands that you often can't keep. Memory is faulty because it insists on filling in the blanks.

I don't remember how big the balloons were. I was a kid then. Everything looks bigger when you're a kid.

You remember my friend Wendy Petino?" "Fellow model," I said. "Flaky as a Greek pastry." Shauna

You're a pain in the ass, you know that?" "Always was," Myron said. "Yeah, but you used to have a sweet jumper from the top of the key. Now what do you got?" "Raw animal magnetism and supernatural charisma?" "I'm going to hang up now." He