Flashback Quotes

#1. It's a wedding reception, Morrie, not a fuckin' '80s flashback.

Kristen Ashley

#2. Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Steve Erickson

#3. The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

Alain Resnais

#4. That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.

Carlton Cuse

#5. The function of the flashback is Freudian ... You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

Sergio Leone

#6. Nothing gives you a fear flashback like a bunch of strangers cheering in surprise that you're not dead.

Tina Fey

#7. On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

Alan Rickman

#8. All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

Chang-rae Lee

#9. I've just had an amusing flashback. All these creatures going in the same direction - they look like the commuters who used to surge back and forth twice a day between home and office, before electronics made it unnecessary.

Arthur C. Clarke

#10. The charm is in waiting... The fragrance of a hope... The sublimity of a dream... The eloquence of a silence... The resplendence of darkness... The heat of winter... The cold of summer... The flashback of a memory... The unliving of a moment...

Avijeet Das

#11. Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.

Samantha Bee

#12. We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.

Taylor Swift

#13. And this, ladies and gentlemoons, is how my whole new Star Wars adventure began! Like an acid flashback, only intergalactic, in the moment, and essentially real!

Carrie Fisher

#14. I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'

Mike Birbiglia

#15. I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

Liam James

#16. Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Arthur Hiller

#17. Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

David Henry

#18. But pink's a nice color."
"Not for goblins. Pink is the color of pure evil."
I had a flashback to shopping for one of my nieces in the all-pink Barbie aisle at Toys "R" Us. I had to admit, it had creeped me out. I nodded. "I can see that.

Lisa Shearin

#19. In a flashback, we hear Holly's mother summing up her life in a conversation with her husband, Wylie: "My life is one big mistake," she said. "No, it's not," he said. "It's a series of small mistakes.

Will Allison

#20. I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

Robert Plant

#21. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for ... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Stephen King

#22. When the blood came out of my mouth I could taste my own shit.

Stephen King

#23. I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

Jill Soloway

#24. Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.

Carolyn Spring

#25. He sensed my sorrow and turned to face me
you know what I remember after the police came
what's that
you sitting on the couch with me
you didn't say anything
you just sat with me

Kristen Simmons

#26. The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

Emma Thompson

#27. Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.

Ali Smith

#28. It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

Dennis Hopper

#29. Sustained negative flashbacks can stir a heart attack.

T.F. Hodge

#30. Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

Jimmy Buffett

#31. Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

Thomas Harris

#32. Mark nodded even though she couldn't see. He'd suddenly lost any desire to talk, and his plans for a perfect day washed away with the stream. The memories. They never let him go, not even for a half hour. They always had to rush back in, bringing all the horror.

James Dashner

#33. She smelled like fresh dough rising.

Jodi Picoult

#34. The only way Father is going to be upset in this case, is with the way the two of you are behaving toward one another. We are family, whether you believe it or not. Your lack of faith in Lucifer is what will do the damage in the long run. It has nothing at all to do with the time I spend with him.

Melyssa Winchester