Rediscovery Quotes

“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Works of J. M. Barrie. (20+ Works) Includes Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, The Little Minister, What Every Woman Knows and more

“You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's not on the way to anywhere. People going north and south, they bypass it altogether. For that reason, it's a peaceful corner of England, rather nice. But it's also something of a lost corner.'

Someone claimed after the lesson that Miss Emily had said Norfolk was England's 'lost corner' because that was were all the lost property found in the country ended up.

Ruth said one evening, looking out at the sunset, that 'when we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it all those of our own reflexions which we have despised, joys and sorrows which we have repressed, a whole world of feelings we have scorned, and whose value the book in which we discover them afresh suddenly teaches us.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“And still it was gone. Seeing it again could not be living it again. You can always rediscover an old path and wander over it, but the best you can do then is to say, "Ah, yes, I know this turning!" -- or remind yourself that, while you remember that unforgettable valley, the valley no longer remembers you.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“Somewhere between handling challenges, taking care of business, and juggling responsibilities, you may have lost pieces of yourself which you long to recover. Perhaps they were buried and forgotten long ago. Rediscovering is more than just being reminded of these golden treasures. It is being able to excavate your riches by pulling them out, polishing them off, and allowing them to shine again.”
― Susan C. Young

“Successfully writing our way through our hardships allows us to rediscover and fully experience our creativity.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“Me: (lamentandosi) So what have I learned or discovered in all these years, considering all the sacrifices, and think about the effort I’ve gone to!
Malina: Nothing of course. You learned what was already inside you, what you already knew. Isn’t that enough?
Me: Maybe you’re right. I sometimes think now that I’m recovering myself, the way I used to be. I’m all too glad to think about the time when I had everything, when my cheerfulness was truly full of cheer, when I was serious in every good sense of the word. (quasi glissando) Then everything became worse for the wear, damaged, used and used up and ultimately destroyed. (moderator) I slowly improved myself, more and more I made up for what was missing, and I consider myself healed. So no I’m almost like I used to be. (Sotto voce) But what purpose did the journey serve?”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina

“Once I'd gone outside I could see Wada through the window of the Saveur, sitting there with his chin resting in his hand, staring out. I bowed to him, thinking he might be looking at me, but he didn't seem to notice. I turned and started walking to the station. My body felt strangely light, like my feet were floating above the ground.
*How weird,* I muttered to myself.
When I looked up I saw the nearly full moon, missing just the sliver on the left, floating in the night sky.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa; Eric Ozawa, trans.

“A new place doesn’t just shift the view, it shifts the heart. In unfamiliar skies, we often see each other more clearly as if for the first time.”
― Pamela Cox

“Fantasy is escapist — and that’s its greatest strength, for through escape we rediscover wonder, courage, and the boundless power of imagination.”
― Dark Night Beacon, Beacon of the Dark Night: Shining Hope Through the Shadows