Quotes About Recollection

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Kod ljudi koji nam postanu bliski mi sve te pojedinosti prvog dodira sa njima obi?no zaboravljamo; izgleda nam kao da smo ih vazda znali i kao da su oduvek sa nama bili. Od svega toga u se?anju iskrsne ponekad samo neka nepovezana slika.

It worked because, lo and behold, she suddenly remembered her good friend Ariel mentioning she'd seen a strange guy hanging around in the neighborhood." "I'm shocked and stunned. What does lo mean? I get the behold, but what is lo and why is it always handing with behold?" "Behold must like it because it always lets lo come first.

forgotten, in a hormonal haze, she held. "I could use some of that coffee.

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

Lamentablemente, no. No recuerdo nada, ni el pasado ni el futuro. Comparado contigo, David, soy un tipo muy obtuso, nada excepcional; de hecho, todo lo opuesto de excepcional. Vivo en el presente, como un buey.

In the silence that followed, Blay knew he had something he was supposed to say. Yeah...it was right on his tongue. It was... Shit. With Qhuinn looking at him like that, he couldn't remember his own name. Blaysox? Blacklock? Blabberfox? Who the fuck knew...

You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.' -Issac Rothe, Crave

No podía recordar exactamente cómo había entrado en su apartamento, o lo que le había dicho. Pero todo lo que habían hecho en posición horizontal era endiabladamente vívido.

Sabes una cosa? —¿Qué? —Me gusta la forma en que me miras, Manello. —¿De verdad? —Sí. Me hace pensar en el momento en que tu boca estaba sobre mí, y me encanta recordar eso.

Great loss, like death, required time to become real. The brain needed to get trained in the absence, the never again, the there-but-now-gone. Emotions, after all, could be so strong that they could warp reality—not in the sense that mourning could resurrect what had been lost, but more like grief could sharpen recollection to such painful degrees that it was as if you could call the person to you, touch them . . . hold them.

Even a supportive Obama biographer like David Remnick called Dreams a "mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, re-creation, invention, and artful shaping.

Duende I can't remember her name. It's not as though I've been in bed with that many women. The truth is I can't even remember her face. I kind of know how strong her thighs were, and her beauty. But what I won't forget is the way she tore open the barbecued chicken with her hands, and wiped the grease on her breasts.

Buck's senses got here again to him

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

When I look back to my infancy many images come to mind, beautiful and ugly.

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

I have seen their backs before.