Quotes About Recollection

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

It will come back to you," cried the Rector, feverishly. "It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——

Oh, look. Do you remember me? I was the one that said, not ten minutes ago, let's not talk about that dandy book.

Yeah, I'm sure that's him, he would add when shown a picture of Gordon Way. I only wasn't sure at first because in the picture he's got his mouth closed.

There was once a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

People had such extraordinarily short memories, including him.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.

But afterwards you went on remembering.

the elephant can remember.

Lucu sekali, karena sesuatu yang telah kita lupakan sering bisa teringat kembali bila kita membicarakannya.

The girl started. 'I—I don't know. I shall never forget it. I dream of it.

It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past

Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.)

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Autobiographical memory: Memory across the lifespan for both specific events and self-related information.

Memory is so subjective. We all remember in a visceral, emotional way, and so even if we agree on the facts—what was said, what happened where and when—what we take away and store from a moment, what we feel about it, can vary radically.

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

brought back memories of that night. Truth serum. His captors

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Dimly--at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream--she remembered Resurgam. And then, slowly, events returned, not as a tidal wave, or even as as landslide, but as a slow, squelching slippage: a disembowelment of the past.