Recollection Quotes

Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ("The past was her best friend")

Erik Pevernagie

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to anyone expect the holder of the memory. Parenting in large part consists of creating positive memories for children. An accumulation of a lifetime of memories does create a musical score that we can assess from an artistic if not scientific perspective. Each happy memory generates a beat of minor joy that when strung together form the musical notes demarking a person’s prosodic inner tune.

Kilroy J. Oldster

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Retrospect: the sweetener of life.

We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life.

Kilroy J. Oldster