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Quotes About Recollection

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
~ Gilbert Parker
Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
~ Marjorie Holmes
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.
~ Jane Austen
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Women mostly remember the men who made them laugh, and men - only the women who made them cry.
~ Henri de Regnier
memories, feelings, sense perceptions, or thoughts
~ Tenzin Wangyal
de esos vagones de trocha angosta que usaban los Ferrocarriles del Estado para viajes cortos, como ella solía recordarlos, entre La Serena y Vicuña, un camino con cuestas empinadas y túneles que oscurecían el carro por apenas segundos. Los
~ Teresa Calderón
We write to remember our nows later.
~ Terri Guillemets
Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.
~ Terry Nardin
These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Cuando lo concreto se pierde, es reemplazado por los clichés. Por eso debemos dar nuestros testimonios. Por cada recuerdo que se pierde llega un tópico en su lugar. El mundo del cliché es un mundo con amnesia.
~ Theodor Kallifatides
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
A story about the burdens of remembering and the costs of forgetting,
~ Theresa Weir
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
~ Thomas a Kempis
In any event, Socrates' proof of prenatal immortality is that one of Meno's uneducated slave boys actually comes up with the Pythagorean theorem without ever having studied geometry! Therefore, he must be remembering it. You recall that theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Huh? We can barely remember that from tenth grade, let alone from before we were born.
~ Thomas Cathcart
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
~ Pierre Corneille
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you.
~ J. Courtney Sullivan
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
~ Annie Dillard
I scored against Arsenal in the Champions League. That's something I will never forget. But I'm one of those people who seems to remember the bad times more than the good. Just the way I am.
~ Wayne Bridge
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
~ David Wenham
I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.
~ Piper Laurie
Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.
~ Arthur Laurents
An angel has no memory.
~ Terry Southern
I have no memory of 'Bigg Boss.'
~ Hina Khan