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Quotes About Reminiscence

Di me ricordo solo che esultavo amandoti.
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~ Gloria Naylor
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
~ Sam Ewing, unverified
Love stabs at loss with pangs of past happiness.
~ Terri Guillemets
Missing you isn't just an empty void — it's what-ifs and questions and endless thoughts and bittersweet memories and runaway feelings and emotions that can't get a hold on anything physical so just slip and slide around my mind, and hide and re-emerge.
~ Terri Guillemets
People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of missing a person--it's missing everything that came with that person.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything. I miss knowing she was around, because it helped me to know that she was around, someone like her existed. I guess most of all, I miss knowing I would see her again. I always thought I'd see her again.
~ James Frey
I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything.
~ James Frey
You talk to - I had a good fortune of getting to spend a lot of time with Uncle Miltie and guys like Buddy Hackett before they passed away.
~ Ralphie May
In the end, we always regret the life we failed to live.
~ Debasish Mridha
Time passes, but memories linger.
~ Eddie Stack, The West
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
~ Patrick Modiano
I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.
~ Rita Rudner
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!
~ Al Green
Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong Now I long for yesterday
~ The Beatles
Everything that is remembered about the past is washed, and often drowned, in nostalgia, pride, illusions and passions of all kinds.
~ Theodore Zeldin
Time. I'm afraid of time." She had never cared for nostalgia. There was a sadness to looking back, a reminder of time wasted. "Things happen too fast, without enough time to relish them or cherish them, or enjoy them as thoroughly as we should.
~ Theresa Weir
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown.
~ Thomas Dunn English
After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.
~ Tzipi Livni
I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
I'll never forget Rome and what I experienced there.
~ Marquinhos
Entertaining the boys in Burma was something that I will never forget and will remain a highlight of my life.
~ Vera Lynn