Recollection Quotes

Recollection Quote of the day

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

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

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

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.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

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.

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.

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

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

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

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

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.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

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.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

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

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

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

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

We can invent only with memory.