Quotes About Recollection

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

Herinnering is als een hond die gaat liggen waar hij wil.

How strange knowledge was. Once something was known, it could not be unknown, no matter how one might wish.

Somewhere out there are people who still know her poems, who've hidden scraps of them away in the folds of their minds before setting match to the papers of their hands. He will find them. He will ask them what they remember. He will piece together their recollections, fragmentary and incomplete though they may be, mapping the holes of one against the solid patches of another. And in this way, piece by piece, he will set her back down on paper again.

wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice—"Shirley Byron!"—that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away. In

As if memory were a bead that might spring from her fingers, clatter to the floor, roll into a crack and disappear.

He remembers again, and he is always angrier than before.

she returns in sudden flashes. Like scraps of half-remembered dreams.

he forgets her voice sometimes; when he tries to summon it, it slips away like a shadow dissolving in the dark.

Still: she returns in sudden flashes. Like scraps of half-remembered dreams.

Ac? haf?zay? çatlat?yor. Ve buharla??yor hat?ralar.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Un passato deve essere tanto familiare da poterlo rivivere meccanicamente e tanto inaspettato da farci stupire ogni volta che vi ritorniamo: allora è adatto alla fantasia.

If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have remembered my last four birthdays.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but at this particular time I do not recall the particulars of that particular matter.

At one point Hoffa told Bobby Kennedy regarding the tapes, "To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember." There

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Keep my memory green.

Let me remember how it used to be, and bring one morning back again.

I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten.

The beer has reminded me that I forgot.