Quotes About Recollection

Remembering was pointless; but forgetting somehow seemed immoral.

On page 603 it is stated that at first Blumenthal could not remember the lunch with me and my wife at which he had loudly impugned two female witnesses against Clinton. This makes it distinctly odd that he should have such have a vivid and detailed but mistaken recollection of the same lunch on page 607.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

Si los oías sólo dos veces, los recuerdos de Lou podían parecer monótonos. Si los oías muchas, se convertían en viejos amigos. Eran reconfortantes.

My son accompanied me throughout the campaign and siege, and caused no anxiety either to me or to his mother, who was at home. He looked out for himself and was in every battle of the campaign. His age, then not quite thirteen, enabled him to take in all he saw, and to retain a recollection of it that would not be possible in more mature years.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

La nostra identità non è fatta solo delle cose che ricordiamo, ma anche di ciò che riusciamo a dimenticare.

La vida no es más que una lenta rememoración de la infancia.

What I will always remember about Havana is the light...All I can see is the blinding light of Havana. It's burned into my retina. It still hurts my eyes.

You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder.

Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo

I know what it is like; some images, once seen, can never be forgotten.

Memories--even the best of them--faded.

pâtisseries, and suddenly I remember Maman handing

some images, once seen, can never be forgotten.

Loreda's lost memories. Sometimes

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember 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

She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original—one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure, undiluted feeling, as if you were living it anew. It wasn't love… and it wasn't hate, or anger, or happiness, or even grief. Memories of those were but echoes of the true feeling. It was shame. Shame never faded.