Ron Rash Quotes

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

When I think about it, 20 years really seems like a blink of an eye sometimes. I wish I would have made a more concerted effort to enjoy things along the way.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

It’s not easy remembering the good times.

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

We all look for lost time.

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.