reminiscence

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
4546411	I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.	moving-on memories future past homelessness belonging leaving attachment uncertainty roots home reminiscence memory	Beryl Markham
5d6ff12	And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.	sunset dragons reminiscence	Ursula K. Le Guin
ca7b7d8	There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.	memories moments reminiscence	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
618363b	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.	memories past reminiscence	Beryl Markham
191d11e	[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.	history life battles hegel self-persuasion william-morris self-delusion reminiscence	Christopher Hitchens
229b937	"The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose To mellowing landscape, and to calming sea. And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light, The soul to sweeter, loftier bliss inclines; Freed form the noonday glare, the favour'd sight Increasing grace in earth and sky divines. But ere the purest radiance crowns the green, Or fairest lustre fills th' expectant grove,	nature romance sadness love love-lost lustre pantheism forest melancholy sky twilight reminiscence memory	H. P. Lovecraft
b7e28bc	...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.	want sorrow distract empty fond fondness have sigh seek miss remember reminiscence	Robin Hobb
515f804	Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.	pain memories honesty truth invite ponder summon pains remember reminiscence memory	Robin Hobb
e48e78c	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.	good childhood-memory the-fifties reminiscence	David Gerrold
1d22ef6	"He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. "Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see."	remembering reminiscence	Arthur Golden
f2d8151	Or poking through a house, in closets shut for years, Full of the scent of time - acrid, musky, dank, One comes, perhaps, upon a flask of memories In whose escaping scent a soul returns to life. -	reminiscence scent	Charles Baudelaire
2e9365c	How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.	teenagers teens remembering reminiscence	Charles Frazier
c583fe2	I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.	love brat glorious narcissim poke-fun pursue remind self-absorption spoled tease cat woo chance narcissistic narcissus charm court like joke reminiscence courtship wooing	Robin Hobb
96434e2	"Herault, Fabre thinks: and his mind drifts back--as it tends to, these days-- to the Cafe du Foy. He'd been giving readings from his latest--Augusta was dying the death at the Italiens--and in came this huge, rough-looking boy, shoe-horned into a lawyer's black suit, whom he'd made a sketch of in the street, ten years before. The boy had developed this upper-class drawl, and he'd talked about Herault--"his looks are impeccable, he's well traveled, he's pursued by all the ladies at Court"--and beside Danton had been this fey wide-eyed egotist who had turned out to be half the city's extramarital interest. The years pass ... plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose ..."	reminiscence	Hilary Mantel

4546411

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

moving-on memories future past homelessness belonging leaving attachment uncertainty roots home reminiscence memory

Beryl Markham

5d6ff12

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

sunset dragons reminiscence

Ursula K. Le Guin

ca7b7d8

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

memories moments reminiscence

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

618363b

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.

memories past reminiscence

Beryl Markham

191d11e

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.

history life battles hegel self-persuasion william-morris self-delusion reminiscence

Christopher Hitchens

229b937

"The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose To mellowing landscape, and to calming sea. And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light, The soul to sweeter, loftier bliss inclines; Freed form the noonday glare, the favour'd sight Increasing grace in earth and sky divines. But ere the purest radiance crowns the green, Or fairest lustre fills th' expectant grove,

nature romance sadness love love-lost lustre pantheism forest melancholy sky twilight reminiscence memory

H. P. Lovecraft

b7e28bc

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

want sorrow distract empty fond fondness have sigh seek miss remember reminiscence

Robin Hobb

515f804

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

pain memories honesty truth invite ponder summon pains remember reminiscence memory

Robin Hobb

e48e78c

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.

good childhood-memory the-fifties reminiscence

David Gerrold

1d22ef6

"He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. "Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see."

remembering reminiscence

Arthur Golden

f2d8151

Or poking through a house, in closets shut for years, Full of the scent of time - acrid, musky, dank, One comes, perhaps, upon a flask of memories In whose escaping scent a soul returns to life. -

reminiscence scent

Charles Baudelaire

2e9365c

How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.

teenagers teens remembering reminiscence

Charles Frazier

c583fe2

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.

love brat glorious narcissim poke-fun pursue remind self-absorption spoled tease cat woo chance narcissistic narcissus charm court like joke reminiscence courtship wooing

Robin Hobb

96434e2

"Herault, Fabre thinks: and his mind drifts back--as it tends to, these days-- to the Cafe du Foy. He'd been giving readings from his latest--Augusta was dying the death at the Italiens--and in came this huge, rough-looking boy, shoe-horned into a lawyer's black suit, whom he'd made a sketch of in the street, ten years before. The boy had developed this upper-class drawl, and he'd talked about Herault--"his looks are impeccable, he's well traveled, he's pursued by all the ladies at Court"--and beside Danton had been this fey wide-eyed egotist who had turned out to be half the city's extramarital interest. The years pass ... plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose ..."

reminiscence

Hilary Mantel