Quotes About Recollection

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have been at the time they occured.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Knowing where to look—and remembering what you have seen—is a hallmark of experience and expertise.

Most of what I know I forgot.

Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this day retain the story of her desperate attempt to hold together her self, her mind, her reason, her order, her morals.

Por supuesto. Eres la hija de Melvina. Cielo santo, te recordaba mucho más joven. Jared notó que a mamá no le hacía mucha gracia este comentario.

and what is remembered is so seldom true

There's a difference between remembering and thinking

Actually, Lacey did, some time ago,

He didn't know yet that he would remember this name forever.

Starflight was dreaming, but it wasn't so much a dream as a memory.

Where had he heard that before?

But the whole point is this: Bach had a father.' 'Heavens, Jack, what things you tell me. Yet upon recollection I seem to have known other men in much the same case.

I remember the fact of extreme, prostrating terror,' he said ... but the inward nature of the emotion now escapes me.

This is the trouble with history, though. Even if you were there, which I obviously was, it's sometimes very difficult to pin down.

What a lot you know.' I laughed and said it was one of the few advantages of old age, to be a repository of bits and pieces of casual information that sometimes come in useful. But she said she didn't really mean that, she meant know as distinct from remember.

One encounter in particular stayed in my memory

It would stay with him always as everything you ever did stayed with you, every horse you ever saddled, every morning he awoke with Maria Luisa beside him, and every slap of the paten on fresh paper, every time he had thrown open the shutters in the Betancort house, and his captain dying under his hands, always there like a tangle of telegraph wires in the brain where no dispatch was ever lost, what an odd thing, an odd thing.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

a sound, a smell, or a memory could bring it back to mind.