“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of… — C. M. Mayo Copy Share Image
“If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
“Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
“The recollection also came back empty, and for the first time in all his life, perhaps, Luzhin asked himself the question –… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without recollection of them and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ("The past was… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a… — Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“No treasure house of recollection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled,… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
![“Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a…” quote by Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f93/joan-didion-497_age_despite-our-preparation-indeed-despite-o_1987477.jpg)
