Quotes about Recollection

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You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are alwa — Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a — Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something diffe — Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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 c — John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more r — Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value t — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Without the mellifluous notes of memory, there would be no songs to sing, no ballads dedicated to past afflictions or af — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We came from some place and we are trending in a particular direction. Without memories, we do not know where we come fr — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind w — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
There can be no intellectual, spiritual, or emotional life without the substratum of memory. Without cognition and aware — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
No person is more ruthlessly cheated than someone strip-mined of his or her ability to recall the vibrancy of the past. — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody’s memory is up to this — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of wh — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
...and Věra said that every time we reached the page which described the snow falling through the branches of the trees, — W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect. — Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed. — Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious wher — Nanci Kincaid, Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi
Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released — Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister
Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. (" — Erik Pevernagie