Quotes About Reminiscence

#1. Tears are every heartfelt feeling,every reminiscence,and every prayer falling down from the walls of heaven raining down upon us all.The tears that are saddened make the rivers rage and joyful tears make the flowers grow.The rain though never stops flowing.

Grace Lawson

#2. You are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

David Eagleman

#3. Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

John Updike

#4. I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine.

Kristie LeVangie

#5. Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

Paul Theroux

#6. As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'

Robin Marantz Henig

#7. Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even be defined, Because everything is not gold that glisters and everything is not a tear that glistens, And one man's remorse is another man's reminiscence

Ogden Nash

#8. The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

Arthur Helps

#9. Indeed, we own a bond, my friend. That most sublime of all: reminiscence for our vanished youth.

Steven Pressfield

#10. The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.

Samael Aun Weor

#11. The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.

Rollo May

#12. The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

Edmund White

#13. There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men.

Hilaire Belloc

#14. One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

Thomas Carlyle

#15. But Teccam claims that out of all the spirits, only wine is suited to reminiscence. He said a good wine allows clarity and focus, while still allowing a bit of comforting coloration of the memory.

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails, She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night, By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,

Walt Whitman

#17. In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Marshall McLuhan

#18. Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

Victor Hugo

#19. Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

Albert Einstein

#20. I am happy when I am on stage. I like that wave of blue. I like the eardrum splitting sounds of loud screams. I like to be able to breathe along with the members. Each and every stage is a good reminiscence and a happy memory

Leeteuk

#21. London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.

Joseph Fort Newton

#22. Behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments,

Henry David Thoreau

#23. How memory conspires with objects of human craft, pressing time flat, inciting a tender reminiscence.

Don DeLillo

#24. I love looking at the old Bond films. Maybe it's purely out of reminiscence, the nostalgic things you think about. But there were some very good films made, and I think that the public has enjoyed them, too.

Albert R. Broccoli

#25. All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

Richard Le Gallienne

#26. The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

O. Henry

#27. For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight.

Herman Melville

#28. There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#29. Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.

Karen Quan

#30. She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

J.M. Barrie

#31. Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#32. That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation.

Amy Marie

#33. i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June.

Sanober Khan

#34. The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

David Gerrold

#35. Time goes a different pace in different places. Some places you come back to, and you feel that time has been busting along at a terrific rate and that all sorts of things will have happened - and changed.

Agatha Christie

#36. There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

Jim Corbett

#37. But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

Diane Meier

#38. I see that you are heartlessly clever.
For you know how to Love,
but not Forever.

You still return to me in flashes,
so strong it clouds my Mind.
The fire has turned to ashes,
and yet, you're not behind.

Meraaqi

#39. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

Robin Hobb

#40. There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

Robin Hobb

#41. To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

Ilyas Kassam

#42. If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

David Mamet

#43. My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new visitor (or passing burglar) to wonder if I might be a fan or at least mildly obsessed.

Al Murray

#44. The Old Days, the Lost Days
in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs.

Beryl Markham

#45. Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

Liu Cixin

#46. How did he get here? What drew him back? Easy answer: the monkey bars. Not-so-easy answer ... What took him away in the first place? Gyroscopic deflections are only partly to blame. Who can stop a revolving planet? Who can predict where on the table a spinning quarter will fall flat?

Jay Nichols

#47. I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.

Michel Foucault

#48. The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Czeslaw Milosz

#49. I had lived and left all the living I'd done in that strange, perfectly sculpted yet empty echo of my life,

Suzanne Rindell

#50. I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ...

Mordecai Richler

#51. Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way.

C. JoyBell C.

#52. She smelled like fresh dough rising.

Jodi Picoult

#53. The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki

#54. There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor