Proustian Moment Quotes

The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.

Sometimes smell can take you back to places.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

If you're walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it's a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.

Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.