Quotes About Recollection

Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.

In fact, he couldn't remember the last time he'd had anything to eat.

Although Walter was the first to admit that his own memory wasn't the best—that he forgot people's names all the time even when he'd been introduced more than once—he

auch Hände haben ein Gedächtnis.

Und ich weiß heute noch, wie der Kuss schmeckte, nämlich nach Wein und nach Honig.

I can't imagine why you didn't memorize this route on the

I keep forgetting to answer to Dorothy.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn't.

I am very much in love with something; What it may be I can't remember; It will come to me. That was a roundabout drive in the snow, Owing to my erratic sense of direction!

recuperative and commemorative work.

The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.

I can't, even now, arrange it in the right order. The memories are like heavy blocks of glass. I can put them down in different places but they don't make a story.

Time didn't run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could press yourself against and feel it push back; a thick fluid, half-air, half-glass, that flowed both ways and sent ripples of recollection forwards and new events backwards

Huge bouts of déjà vu. Coincidences. Memories of things that hadn't happened yet. Time didn't run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could press yourself against and feel it push back; a thick fluid, half-air, half-glass, that flowed both ways and sent ripples of recollection forwards and new events backwards so that new things I encountered, then, seemed souvenirs from the distant past.

remember the name of the firm which he owned. She

One or the other of us said 'I can't,' and if it was me I don't know why because I wanted to. Maybe I'm just remembering it wrongly to help me get over the rejection.

I like to jot down thoughts and ideas as I tread life's garden, for then sometimes when I am weary I can turn a leaf and find what my mood was on a certain day and that changes a train of thought and brings back sunshine.

Mis amigos son muy peculiares...Leen todos los bestsellers que caen en sus manos. Pero luego JAMÁS releen nada, con lo que al cabo de un año no recuerdan ni una palabra de lo que han leido.

You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.

All that we can remember is almost nothing. Memory is greater than we are, but memory is living and mortal as well.

Of all such appeals to sensory recollection, none are more powerful, none open a wider door in the brain than an appeal to the nose. It is a sense that every lover of the elemental world ought to use, and, using, enjoy. We ought to keep all senses vibrant and alive. Had we done so, we should never have built a civilization which outrages them, which so outrages them, indeed, that a vicious circle has been established and the dull sense grown duller.

There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.