Collection Quotes

I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.

I’m afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I’ve got a whole cemetery full of them.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

When people throw stones at you, don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.