Reminiscence Quotes

“You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.”

— Charles Dickens

Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin.

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— John Updike

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational

— Ilyas Kassam

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

— Ogden Nash

Be the joyful reminiscence of your future self.

— Anonymous

“I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.”

— Ranata Suzuki

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

— Albert Einstein

“I know he wasn’t perfect… But he did the best impression of it I’ve ever seen.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your…

— Ranata Suzuki

“When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore. I was just me. I was whole again. I was…

— Ranata Suzuki

“Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.”

— michael bassey johnson

“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.”

— Robin Hobb

“I had always wanted to hear those words. I had always wanted to be your girl.”

— Ranata Suzuki

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

“I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again…

— Ranata Suzuki

“The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar;…

— Beryl Markham

“Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails, She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under…

— Walt Whitman

“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even be defined, Because…

— Ogden Nash

“Small talk had been replaced by a general reminiscence that people called “remember when.” “Remember when there was electricity?” “Remember when we…

— Benjamin Wallace

“You can miss places. You can miss people. Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even…

— Ranata Suzuki

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass…

— Thomas Carlyle

It's so painful to depart from a place where you'd grown with full of reminiscence. But nothing is more agony when you…

— Rain3031

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably…

— Edmund White

“The Reaping by Stewart Stafford Paint a nostalgic landscape today, A harvest gifted once in this way, Stranger's yields come to pass,…

— Stewart Stafford

“...Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst…

— Thomas Hardy

“…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when…

— Ranata Suzuki

“The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach…

— Mahita Vas

“If only feelings and ideas and stories and history really could be contained in a block of marble—if only there could be…

— Susan Orlean

“Mamma was playing Field’s second concerto. Field, it may be said, had been her master. As I dozed, the music brought up…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Back then, come July, and the blazers would again make their way out of the steel trunks and evenings would be spent…

— Kunal Sen

“Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten Unforgettable, unforgotten River-smell, and…

— Rupert Brooke

“That was our first home. Before I felt like an island in an ocean, before Calcutta, before everything that followed. You know…

— Kunal Sen

“No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile—not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents,…

— Paulo Freire

“No one leaves his or her world without being transfixed by its roots, or with a vacuum for a soul. We carry…

— Paulo Freire

“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Hérault, Fabre thinks: and his mind drifts back—as it tends to, these days— to the Café du Foy. He’d been giving readings…

— Hilary Mantel

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

— Victor Hugo