Quotes About Recollection

How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go?

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them!

A liar should have a good memory.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

In memory, everything seems to happen to music.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

To want to forget something is to think of it.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.