Recollection Quotations

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

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

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

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

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

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.

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

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

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

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

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

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

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

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

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.