#recollection

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#love #memory #recollection #remembrance #love

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. ↗

— William Faulkner

#memory #recollection #belief

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age #blessing #harvest #old #old age

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

#only #out #paradise #recollection #turned

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

#amount #any #arrangements #dad #detail

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ↗

— Washington Irving

#his #idol #our #out #pushes

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#amazement #recollection #write #yourself

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. ↗

— Stendhal

#better #future #had #hope #lost

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #memory #metaphor #recollection #humor

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#after #again #back #been #call