Quotes About Recollection

Q didn't believe, as some people did, that the squirrels would remember where they buried each walnut. He

I can remember much forgetfulness.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Funny how that is. The jockey never recalls using a whip. The horse never forgets

As we know, human memory is notoriously unreliable when it comes to recalling facts. But when it comes to matters of the psyche, the way we feel about what happened can be as significant as the facts of the case.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.

A journal is personal travel insurance, protecting your memories from strolling off un-chaperoned, vanishing without a goodbye or backwards glance. This is the driving force behind most people's road journals, and although basic, its importance cannot be overstated. The human memory is feeble and needs all the help it can get.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

You have this scent" Hana said quietly, "I used to think it was your perfume. Joy, ne?" "I still wear that." "I know," Hana said, and Etsuko resisted the urge to sniff her own wrists. "It's not just the perfume, though, it's all the other creams and things that you wear, and it makes up this smell. I used to walk around department stores wondering what it was. The smell of mama." Book 3, p401

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing

Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

There are so many objects that I find that I have forgotten about until they are in my hands again, and they remind me of times in my life I had otherwise forgotten, the way you will visit a place you think is new and then something, a sound or smell or some tiny detail, will make you realize it is familiar after all.

Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez. Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez. Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez.

Berlin is a sort of history book of twentieth-century violence, and every street corner brought a recollection of something I'd heard, seen, or read. We followed the road alongside the Landwehr Canal, which twists and turns through the heart of the city. Its oily water holds many dark secrets.

This is the difference between traumatic memory and ordinary memory. Traumatic memory stays vivid.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...

To quote Yogi Berra, it was déjà vu all over again.

I have not forgotten those days, I have only forgotten how simply they seemed to occur …