Recollection Quotes · Page 4

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

— Michel de Montaigne

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

— Plato

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

— Joe McNally

“How can I demonstrate [...] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

— John Andrew Rice

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

— Terry Pratchett

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

— Flann O'Brien

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us…

— Charles Dickens

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the…

— Barbra Streisand

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have…

— Alexander Smith

I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual…

— Odilon Redon

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

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

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

“The recollection also came back empty, and for the first time in all his life, perhaps, Luzhin asked himself the question –…

— Vladimir Nabokov

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we…

— Sue Grafton

Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my…

— Charles Dickens

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You…

— Terry Pratchett

“Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.”

— michael bassey johnson

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

— James Mackintosh

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

— Anonymous

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

— Samuel Johnson

“Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Recollection hurt so much; I could barely remember my unbroken self”

— Vikki Wakefield

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried…

— Joseph Conrad

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

— Horace

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

— Jane Austen

Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is…

— Henry Abbey

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

— John Strachan

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

— Arsene Houssaye

During the PRIDE era, I have no recollection of anyone getting hurt badly from stomps or soccer kicks.

— Mauricio Rua

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

— Anonymous