Quotes of Reminiscence - somelinesforyou

“ We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. ”

- Lisa Marie Presley

“ For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. ”

- Rachel Carson

“ This brings back a lot of memories. ”

- Mark Messier

“ Wendy and I grew up in New Orleans, and every place we know and have so many wonderful memories of, is almost all under water. ”

- David Vitter

“ In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts, after practicing for years, you become the gap. ”

- Unknown

“ I just really like playing here. I've always done well here in the past and those memories kicked in well. ”

- Martina Hingis

“ The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water. ”

- Eugene Ionesco

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

- Saki

“ I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. ”

- Alexander Woollcott

“ In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Every man's memory is his private literature. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Creditors have better memories than debtors. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ”

- Edward de Bono

“ The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. ”

- Tim Foley

“ I don't like nostalgia — unless it's mine. ”

- Lou Reed

“ Remembrance of things past. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ”

- Barbara Kingsolver

“ The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ”

- Ralph Ellison

“ I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ”

- J. M. Barry
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