Recollection Quotes - Page 6

• Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

  Anthony Trollope

  Past, Men, Ugly

  Anthony Trollope (1874). “Phineas Redux”, p.210

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• Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Immortality

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, Imagination, Details

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• Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Indulge In, Relief

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.128, PDFreeBooks.org

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• There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Affection, Appreciated, Lost

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3998, Delphi Classics

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• One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

  Edgar Degas

  Invention, Tyranny, Liberated

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• Music revives the recollections it would appease.

  Madame de Stael

  Music, Revive, Appease

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.

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• I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.

  Jonathan Hull

  Past, Thinking, Wish

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Memories, Growth

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• I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection.

  Marco Roth

  Memories, Father, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

  Bayard Taylor

  Past, Mind, Mountain

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.53

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• The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.

  John Quincy Adams

  Memories, Struggle, Years

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

  Miguel

  Pain, Doe, Ends

  de Cervantes, Miguel (2015). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.119, Aegitas

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• That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.624, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

  Norman Mailer

  Winter, Fog, Years

  Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

  Mary McCarthy

  Atheist, Eye, True Life

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Danger, Pleasant

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• Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Overcoming, Difficulty

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• My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mother, Father, Soldier

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• For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.

  Russell Sherman

  Moving, Psychics, Two

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• The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.427

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• My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

  David Cassidy

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "David Cassidy: My family Values". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Order, Giving

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• From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Mother, Thinking, Church

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• I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.

  John Baldessari

  Want, Produce

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