Quotes About Recollection

It's like trying to remember a dream," I said. "It's in me somewhere." "I wish I were in you somewhere," he said. To my surprise, I was a little disappointed. Too easy, I thought. "Where are you instead?

You know," she said dreamily, "I can remember every man I ever fucked by the way he liked to do it. Not the way I liked to do it.

It's like trying to remember a dream," I said. "It's in me somewhere.

I think it may have something to do with something I heard when I was a kid. Something I think I heard. Actually, I know, know for a fact, that I heard something.

You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

I remember everything about you, you're the one who wasn't paying attention.

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

Creo que los sucesos aterradores son los más difíciles de erradicar. Al fin y al cabo, son los que por naturaleza recordamos mejor.

You just remember who the enemy is,

Does he remember that?

Te'n recordes? —em diu—. Aquí és on em vas fer aquell petó. […] — Em pensava que no te'n recordaves —dic. — Hauria d'estar mort per oblidar-ho. I potser ni així —em diu—.

The Hanging Tree" out loud for ten years, because it's forbidden, but I remember every word. I begin softly, sweetly, as my father did.

Manusia memiliki ingatan yang pendek. [P. 18]

We never remember what is important, only what matters to us

I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.'

The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.