Quotes About Recollection

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." —Michel de Montaigne, February 28,1533–September 13, 1592

that our memories are forever evolving, so we only remember the version of the memory we last recalled rather than the original event.

Maybe that's what made a memory powerful. Not that it happened once, but that it happened over and over again on the screen of your mind.

Mas lembrar-se com saudade é como se despedir de novo.

Cuántas otras palabras habré perdido? ¿A qué lugar de la memoria irán a parar las palabras olvidadas?

Memory is a tough place. You were there.

Memory is a tough place. You were there. If this is not the truth, it is also not a lie.

The present time is the best time for reminiscing the pasts.

Old friends and relatives may not remember you. They may not need anything from you either. But remembering them can be worth more than anything.

I have found the title of the book as impossible to forget as the poems in it were impossible to remember.

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.

Don't tell me you've offended that one too." Daeng shook her head. "Have we offended that one?" Siri asked. "Don't recall," said Civilai. "Wait. Isn't he the one whose limousine we filled up with ducks?" "No. That was the Vice-Minister of Agriculture.

Yolun gitti?i yeri unutan? hat?rla.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

If you wish to acquire recollection by practicing this holy exercise, remember to make use of a very brief means of ridding yourself of various distracting thoughts. This is that you say "No" to them when they come to you during prayer.

Naše špatná pam?t, na niž si tak hodn? st?žujeme, souvisí p?edevším s nedostatkem obraznosti.

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

The past changes a little every time we retell it.

Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.

The only things he cannot remember are the things he never knew. His

Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, preserve time.

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.