We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding exercise among the body contemplations, a regular recollection of death can lead to the realization that death is fearful on...
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Joy recollected is indeed no longer the emotion itself.
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forgetting? ... And is not his work of spontaneous recoll...
Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
