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Quotes About Recollection

Remember us better than we are.
~ John Clare
At the Oceana Apartments, he recollects leaving England in triumph, infused with a joy he has not felt in many years. England has reinvigorated them. England has given them hope. But hope is a candle. Hope burns, and then it is gone.
~ John Connolly
Memory is a rascal.
~ John Dufresne
Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Must I tell the story of my life again?
~ John Garfield
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
~ Agnes Repplier
I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.
~ Darrell Issa
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
~ Sue Townsend
In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.
~ Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
~ James Gates Percival
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
~ Agatha Christie
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
~ Amelia Barr
Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.
~ Christina Baldwin
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The time never comes back; however, the memories stay in mind forever.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!
~ Eiichiro Oda
Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking. A little recollection reminds it that all these things come to an end. And faith instructs it in what the soul must do to find satisfaction. . . .
~ Eknath Easwaran
Notice that no other person is in her first memory.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Time is only the river of memory.
~ Elaine Neil Orr
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Hubo un hombre cuya actuación en la guerra de Cuba culmina en los horizontes de mi memoria, como culmina un astro en su perihelio.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Ognuno si organizza la memoria come gli conviene.
~ Elena Ferrante
Luchaba entre varias memorias y la memoria de lo sucedido era la única irreal para él.
~ Elena Garro