Quotes About Recollection

To remember is to leave the present.

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Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In

By the way, in case you weren't paying attention or something, did you catch what Mr. Powell called me? "Young artist." I bet you missed that.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

You'll be thinking of me. You may not be thinking good thoughts, but you'll be thinking of me.

Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be

However, memories—unlike reality—aren't fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can't distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.

I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened.

In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over

To remember everything is a form of madness.

When this you see remember me and bare me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may, speak of me as you find. Brian Jones 1968

Hypnosis is an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents.

others remembered previous lives through meditation, or spontaneously while experiencing intense déjà vu feelings, or through vivid dreams, or in other ways.

When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it had nothing to do with you. Remembering, that's what counts.

What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

The past comes back once and then it keeps coming back and coming back, not just one part of the past but all of it, the forgotten crowd of your life breaks out of the gallery and comes rushing at you, and there is no sense in hiding from the crowd, it will find you; it's your crowd, you're the only one it's looking for.

Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.

yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

And there the trail ended: with the quotation exposed as a half-remembered story told by a dead man who might or might not have seen it in a newspaper around 1925, and might or might not have recalled it correctly decades later.

Of course, a blow job given in friendship isn't the most arousing, but it stays in the memory longer.