Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections… — Alexandre Dumas 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
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
How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not… — Jackie Kay Copy Share Image
People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear… — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
“Smooth to the touch, My memories of you; I've handled them so much No facet can feel new. Yet every recollection Holds… — The Clam Lake Papers 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,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone - although I… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Even a supportive Obama biographer like David Remnick called Dreams a “mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, re-creation, invention, and artful shaping.” — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon… — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire Copy Share Image
“He would look for her- he would find her out long before the evening were over- and at present, perhaps, it was… — Jane Austen 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
![“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original—one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure, undiluted feeling, as if you were living…” quote by Laini Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/428/laini-taylor-258_recollection_she-had-heard-it-said-that-there-was-onl_2615203.jpg)
![“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering. [p214]” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c12/john-green-12_meaning_that-brief-walk-was-one-of-those-moments_1599889.jpg)
