We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. — Plato Copy Share Image
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory… — Frank Hardy Copy Share Image
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her… — Jerome K. Jerome 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
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a… — Andre Maurois 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
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin 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
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Some things are better than I recall. Some arent as good. But the distortion of memorywillful or otherwiseis a fascinating thing. Recollections… — Anonymous 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
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
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem. — Horace Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away… — Madeleine Delbrel Copy Share Image
Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'.… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
