Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wagner

Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

Charles Dudley Warner

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles de Lint

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

Charles de Lint

I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

Charles de Lint

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Bruce McCulloch

I'm in a rut deep enough to hang posters.

Earl Nightingale

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

Kin Hubbard

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

James Broughton

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

Henry David Thoreau

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Laurence J. Peter

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

Henry Ward Beecher

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Tom Brown, Jr.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

Twyla Tharp

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)

Irving Kristol

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Jasper Fforde

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?