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Quotes About Reminiscence

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.
~ David Levithan
Caroline's about to say something really harsh, but suddenly Hunter and Dev launch into a fucking Green Day cover, and we're all seven years old again and dancing like we spit out the Ritalin while Mom wasn't looking.
~ David Levithan
She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.
~ David Levithan
I choose what to remember, and I am choosing Rhiannon. Again and again, I am choosing her, I am conjuring her, because to let go for an instant will allow her to disappear.
~ David Levithan
He drinks, even though drinking always makes him remember rather than forget.
~ David Levithan
The way you said I love you said I'll never sleep with you said I will always kept a list of all your favorite moments in a composition book and would underline the ones involving me with blue ink
~ David Levithan
Why was I thinking about this? Oh, yes—the roses. Something to keep. Something gone.
~ David Levithan
The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday
~ David Levithan
I still sing him songs before I am ready, sing him back the moments he has missed. as if to say, this is where I was when you couldn't find me.
~ David Levithan
Perhaps I have not mentioned the tennis courts.
~ David Markson
I'd wish then that I could afford to go to the ticket counter and buy a seat on the next plane back to where I'd come from.
~ David Sedaris
Con todo, no podía reprimir los vívidos recuerdos de aquella pasión, su cuerpo se ponía tenso y comenzaba a temblar. Por fin la tensión se aflojaba y una deliciosa sensación de plenitud recorría sus miembros. Su amor del pasado había vuelto a la vida.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Con el correr del tiempo, el recuerdo de aquel abrazo se fue purificando dentro de Otoko; fue dejando de ser algo físico para convertirse en algo espiritual. Ahora ella ya no era pura y sin duda Oki tampoco lo era. Y sin embargo, su antiguo abrazo, tal como lo veía ahora, parecía puro. Aquel recuerdo —en el que ella intervenía y no intervenía, que parecía real e irreal— era una visión sagrada, una visión sublimada del abrazo de antaño.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten years ago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's what Archie loved about O'Connell's. Everything was remembered, nothing was lost. History was never revised or reinterpreted, adapted or whitewashed. It was as solid and as simple as the encrusted egg on the clock.
~ Zadie Smith
[Skipping] takes me back to less complicated times, without leaving the present!
~ Unknown
We'll always have Paris.
~ Unknown
Because it was at Corcoran—on the Level II yard—that I immediately ran across some guys I'd known in
~ Unknown
This is one of my fave Quotes 1 year, 12 months, 363 days, 8760 hours, 525600minuts, 3153600 seconds, every day, every night, every time, I always miss you.
~ Unknown
The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.
~ Colleen Coble
There are no days more full than those we go back to.
~ Colum McCann
I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.
~ Connie Chung
The cold water stung Cassandra's toes. She thought about everything—a blur of images and sounds: leaving Clarion, driving to the Cape, Noah kissing her, unpacking the car into the cottage, the cello singing out to the sea—and then she sank into the moment and let herself think about nothing. It had been so long since she'd been able to think about nothing. Nothing at all.
~ Unknown
Seeing her again was like unearthing an emotional library card with a lot of overdues.
~ Craig Johnson
I forgot what it felt like to be young
~ Craig Silvey