Quotes About Recollection

I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.

Memory, perhaps, should have no physical shape.

Simply because you've lived through something doesn't mean you understand its true significance or even recall the details of it correctly.

BED. He smelled his adult sweat, tasted it

that were very familiar. He saw his father.

She did ask for the name. And I gave it to her. Okay, now I remember. After

At least for most people. The way I'm wired I remember pretty much everything as it actually happened

Pribram has given evidence backing up his suggestion that memories are generally recorded all over the brain in such a way that information concerning a given object or quality is not stored in a particular cell or localized part of the brain but rather that all the information is enfolded over the whole.

the only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.

She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.

started to see that maybe he had forgotten the whole incident.

A legbensÅ'ségesebb emlékem ?kelmérÅ'l az állkapcsa szúróssága és a nyakszaga, amikor vacsoránál elnyomott az álom, és fölvitt lefeküdni. Vékony nyaka volt, de jó meleg szaggal [...]

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity;

she let her mind drift back to the day it was signed, some six years earlier.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

El pan comido es pronto olvidado.

Memories come to mind like excavated statues that have misplaced their heads.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

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

Memories. Weighty emptinesses. I live in a memory the size and shape of a house.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.