Quotes About Recollection

Why can I remember eggplant, when I can't remember my own name?!

Books contain our history; our brains swarm with memories.

Memory is the most potent truth. Show me history untouched by memories and you show me lies.

There is nothing new except what is forgotten. —Rose Bertin

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I don't really think our greatest memories are always great while they're happening.

Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the filter of recall is itself altered, so that it blocks out everything but the darkest colors of the spectrum.

Selective memory is the handmaiden of fashion.

Miss Edith Clay brightened the room with her presence. Just from walking through the door, she'd made the room a happier place. This was true despite his having spent the last several months assuring himself his recollection of her had to be incorrect. His recollection was not incorrect. It was appallingly accurate.

I make a great memory

No one can be so recollected, so tranquil, that he can be a contemplative in the world, a contemplative of Christ in his own heart, unless at the very outset he finds a cure for fear.

Il ricordo del piacere non è più piacere. Il ricordo del dolore è ancora dolore.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Till the rest of his days were done, Abner Marsh remembered that moment, that first look into the eyes of Joshua York.

If he didn't talk about it, maybe he would forget. He had never wanted to remember. It might not even be a true remembering." - Bran

trying to remember was like trying to catch the rain with her fingers.

That is how it is when a man grows as old as Pycelle. Everything you see or hear reminds you of something you saw or heard when you were young.

It is not the literal past that rules us: it is images of the past.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

They say memory is the first thing to go. The second thing to go is memory.

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.