Recollection Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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.

  Edgar Degas

  Invention, Tyranny, Liberated

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• Music revives the recollections it would appease.

  Madame de Stael

  Music, Revive, Appease

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.

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• My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Memories, Growth

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• The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.

  John Quincy Adams

  Memories, Struggle, Years

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.624, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Mind, Hippo

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.69, Random House

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• The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

  David Markson

  Morning, Emptiness, Anticipation

  David Markson (2016). “This is Not a Novel and Other Novels”, p.216, Counterpoint

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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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• The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Pain, Memories, Next Day

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Hero, College, Slavery

  George Edward Woodberry (1912). “Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American”

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• There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Sorrow, Progress

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Mind, Firsts

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Memories, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

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• Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

  Alexander Smith

  Memories, Fire, Echoes

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122

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• Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Immortality

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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

  Miguel

  Pain, Doe, Ends

  de Cervantes, Miguel (2015). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.119, Aegitas

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• I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Mother, Memories, School

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• On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

  Norman Mailer

  Winter, Fog, Years

  Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Memories, Style

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Children, Past

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

  Alexei Sayle

  Memories, Vivid, Facts

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• How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

  John Flavel

  Christian, Events, Sober

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.19

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