Recollection Quotes - Page 5

• Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Past, Discovery

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Expression, Kangaroos, Cosmos

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.16, Penguin UK

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

  Joe Biden

  School, Law, Recalls

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• He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,—to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Love, Romantic, Fire

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1513, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  Jane Austen

  Regret, Lucky, Saved

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.5

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• I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Reflection, Self, Dwelling

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.29, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Past, Here I Am

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Memories, Valuable

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• Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he was playing quick draw in the police station elevator and his gun accidentally discharged. The bullet ricocheted off the elevator wall and lodged in Gazarra's right buttock.

  Janet Evanovich

  Wall, Hate, Gun

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

  Ugo Betti

  Memories, Distance, Erode

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

  Dean Koontz

  Beach, Memories, Broken

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Children, Father, Men

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• When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

  Ovid

  Memories, Rose, Gone

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• In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Writing, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)

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• Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever.

  Simone Elkeles

  Memorable, Kissing, Night

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Choices, Would Be

  "The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson".

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• Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Relief, Vivid

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.

  William Mountford

  Spiritual, Memories, Depth

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.460

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• 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 recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!

  Washington Irving

  Death, Regret, Spring

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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• Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.

  William Cobbett

  Father, Son, Men

  Political Register, December 21, 1816.

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• 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.

  John Constable

  Bears, Alive, Solemnity

  John Constable (1966). “John Constable's Correspondence”

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

  Theodor Adorno

  Memories, Past, Leftovers

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

  Plato

  Process

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Childhood, Agents

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• When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Land, Despair

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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