Quotes About Recollection

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Here lay she, still reverberating the pleasure long laid aside and never forgotten.

Recollection of fear can be stronger than the original fear itself. Similarly, bliss is sometimes more vivid when recollected. How else do you explain longing? Longing for what has already passed. That's the real pain.

Posterity gives every man his true value.

Cassie," I said, "we've been through this. Once more, with feeling: I remember sweet shining fuck-all.

but all it takes is one whiff of the right smell—jasmine, lapsang souchong, a specific old-fashioned soap that I've never been able to identify—or one sideways shaft of afternoon light at a particular angle, and I'm lost, in thrall all over again.

I don't think about my parents much. I've only got a handful of memories, and I don't want them wearing away, textures rubbing smooth, colors fading from overexposure. When I take them out, once in a blue moon, I need them bright enough to catch my breath and sharp enough to cut.

Memory is a queer creature, an eccentric curator

perfect memory couldn't be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.

That Cornell show that - that people talk about, I can't remember that specifically. It didn't stand out for me on that tour. The whole tour was like that for me.

The spectacular catches are the ones that you remember detail for detail. The ones with two hands, it's kind of routine.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

I have a very bad memory. So I would like a chat bot to just remind me of everything I forget. I spend my entire life on Google trying to remember stuff.

Memories come out only when you spend time with a person.