Quotes About Recollection

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Good God, what did he not remember?

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

I have a great memory.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Happiness is health and a short memory!

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

History is the memory of things said and done.

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Only the vanquished remember history.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.