88 Quotes About Reminiscence

Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being? I cannot tell. Now that I feel nothing, it has stopped, has perhaps gone down again into its darkness, from which who can say whether it will ever rise?

I gather all of my sorrow and bring you in my reminiscence, I think of you and forget all of my pain.

Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin.

Someone mentioned your name today,took me down memory lane,to a time very much younger, a time more pure, more sane.

Käymme Akropoliksella. Sataa tihuuttaa. Meitä palelee ja naurattaa. Nauramme yhdessä koko ajan, ilman mitään järkevää syytä. Saatamme nauraa kymmenen vuotta yhdelle ja samalle jutulle. Yleensä ne ovat tilannekomiikkaa, joku ilme tai lauseenpätkä, jotakin mitä ei voi kertoa eteenpäin koska kukaan ei ymmärrä.

When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world that once was, not one bulse-beat of those past emotions. I feel like a ghost returning to the burnt-out ruins of the castle he built in his prime as a prince, which he adorned with magnificent splendours and then, on his deathbed, but full of hope, left to his beloved son

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

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

...reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease...