Reflection Quotes

"Rosebud."

- Citizen Kane (1941)

"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time goes By.'"

- Casablanca (1942)

"August slipped away into a moment in time, 'cause it was never mine."

- Taylor Swift

"This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand."

- Sara Baume

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone."

- Natalie Babbitt

"One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon."

- Ray Bradbury

"August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water."

- Mary Oliver

"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar."

- William Faulkner

"But I can see us lost in the memory August slipped away into a moment in time ‘Cause it was never mine And I can see us twisted in bedsheets August sipped away like a bottle of wine ‘Cause you were never mine"

- Taylor Swift

"You lead me Into the spacious, Autumnal country of my mind, There to dig in fallen leaves, And talk about the world."

- Amy Lowell

"Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch."

- Jane Smiley

"Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk."

- Pat Conroy

"The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled."

- Sue Monk Kidd

"The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice."

- Garth Brooks

"August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer."

- Henry Rollins

"But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time."

- Taylor Swift

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color."

- Natalie Babbitt

"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her."

- Julie Walters

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

- Hermann Hesse

"The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with; Nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life."

- Rob Sheffield

"At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them."

- Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer

"Make the most of your regrets; Never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it 'til it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, 'Look: She existed.'"

- Meghan O'Rourke

"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart: The secret anniversaries of the heart."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Remember..."

- Mufasa's Ghost

"Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?"

- Ann Patchett

"New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive."

- Jay Leno

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

- Oscar Wilde

"New year, old you."

- A.D. Aliwat

"January is the calendar’s ingrown hair."

- Stewart Stafford