Recollection

Famous quotes containing the word recollection:

“When I think of my own native land,
In a moment I seem to be there;
But alas! recollection at hand
Soon hurries me back to despair.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)

“I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies—every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“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 [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)