Quotes About Recollection

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

Erkekler bize söyledikleri ac? sözleri ne kadar iyi hat?rlad???m?z? ve can?m?z? nas?l yakt?klar?n? pek bilmezler.

Memory is the hotel curtain that never completely closes. Memory always lets in just enough light to fill the room and ruin your sleep.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.

That is the substance of remembering—sense, sight, smell: the muscles with which we see and hear and feel not mind, not thought: there is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, no less; and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream.

Po jakim? czasie cz?owiek przyzwyczaja si?, zapomina i nawet nie czuje, ?e zimno, bo zapomnia?, co to jest ciep?o.

I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts . . . A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. . . .

Had me this boy once. You kinda remind me . . ." She turned and surveyed the corridor. "Johnny, his name was.

he didn't forget this either. He just didn't remember it in time. . . . 

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. —Santayana

photographic memory for places.

Your brain hosts a truly staggering number of loops. The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

But let's not confuse memorability with wisdom.

Familiarity and memorability are often at odds.

Rounding early means sharper recall in the end.

in recalling an experience, we ignore most of what happened and focus instead on a few particular moments.

I long to stretch out on the sofa, wrapping myself in the red quilt that's lying there. Then, with a stab, I recognize the quilt. My father had brought it back from a business trip he took to New England long ago. Ironic, how objects remain in your life long after people have exited.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.