Quotes About Recollection

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of events t give a memory past dimension. Eventlessness collapses time.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live...

Ä°ÅŸe en ba??ndan baÅŸla ve hat?rlayabildiÄŸin her ÅŸeyi sonuna kadar akl?nda geçir. Zihnine geri geldikçe ayn? ÅŸeyi baÅŸtan sona tekrarla. Bir süre sonra yorulur, parça parça silinir, çok geçmeden tümüyle kaybolur.

They reminded him of something—what was it?—some memory, some picture. He strove to find it and then it came of itself. It rose out of the years complete with all its colours and its cries, its crowded feelings.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? No. Leave it. Burn it.

people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

A man's mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

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.

Life brings tears, smiles and memories. The tears dry, the smiles fade but the memories last forever!

Memories should not be forgotten, they should always be remembered.

A single moment can spark a lifetime of memories.

The best memories are the ones that you try to explain but in the end...you just say..'You had to be there.'

All my life flashed before my eyes...it was really boring.

Life is like pictures in a photo album. You can look back on the moments, but you can never recapture them.

What Takes Us to the PAST is the MEMORY.... What takes Us to the FUTURE is DREAM......

Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.