Recollection Quotes
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Recollection Quotes & Sayings
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Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The morning's recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
— David Markson
One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.
— John Andrew Rice
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.
— William Baziotes
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
— Peter L. Berger
There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention ...
— Wallace Stegner
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart - never the sensation of the moment.
— Roger Zelazny
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
— Andre Maurois
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
— Theodor Adorno
Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.
— Samuel Woodworth
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
— Marcus Aurelius
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
— E. V. Lucas
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
— William Cowper
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
— Publilius Syrus
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
— William Faulkner
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time.
— Maureen Dowd
The recollection of an injury is ... a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.
— Francis Of Paola
I have no recollection of that ever happening.
— Ronald Reagan
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.
— Arnold Gingrich
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
— George Bernard Shaw
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
— Marcel Proust
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
— George Gordon Byron
Retrospect: the sweetener of life.
— Kamand Kojouri
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
— Jack Kerouac
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
— Edna O'Brien
Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
— Malcolm Forbes
People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.
— Amitav Ghosh
The recollection of one upward hourHath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure. — James Gates Percival
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
— Vladimir Nabokov
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
— Samuel Johnson
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
— John Philip Sousa
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
— Rashida Jones
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
— Robert Breault
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
— John Strachan
Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.
— Arthur Rimbaud
From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
— Teddy Pendergrass
Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.
— Mordecai Richler
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
— Clifton Fadiman
Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
— Victor Hugo
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
— Alphonsus Liguori
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
— Pliny The Younger
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
— Horace
I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.
— John Baldessari
We can erase everything that caused you pain with its recollection
— Cassandra Clare
Two years ago. To the best of my recollection, that was about the time I started to lose my mind.
— Richard Bachman
Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.
— Terry Pratchett
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
— Terry Pratchett
We went to the double feature last night" ... "My recollection, it was a triple," Raiden muttered. — Kristen Ashley
Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together.
— Michael Cunningham
I wondered whether you and Mr. Locke had any recollection about the past.I see now that we all suffer the same. — Nathan Reese Maher
Recollection hurt so much; I could barely remember my unbroken self
— Vikki Wakefield
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
— Madame De Stael
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— Vladimir Nabokov
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
— Washington Irving
The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
— James Mackintosh
Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same. - A Perfect Circle. — Maynard James Keenan
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
— Washington Irving
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
— Douglas MacArthur
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
— James E. Talmage
What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?How much of recollection is invention?
Whose invention? — Jeanette Winterson
I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
— David Blunkett
She took her mind away with a wrench from the recollection of the past to the bright serene contemplation of the hopeful future.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.
— Jonathan Winters
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
— Joe Biden
Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighsA fading land to which is no return. — Henry Abbey
