Quotes About Recollection

Siempre recordaré que estuve en tus brazos frente a una antigua sepultura, en una mañana como ésta. Es muy extraño que una tumba cree un recuerdo.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Pensó en las palabras de Dostojewsky, que hasta ese momento no había comprendido: "Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo".

Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo».

Pensó en las palabras de Dostojewsky, que hasta ese momento no había comprendido: "Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo". Nébel lo había guardado, ese recuerdo sin mancha, pureza inmaculada de sus dieciocho años, y que ahora estaba allí, enfangado hasta el cáliz sobre una cama de sirvienta…

Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo

Si usted es querido alguna vez como yo lo fui, y ultraja como yo lo hice, comprenderá toda la pureza viril que hay en mi recuerdo.

We don't often remember our lives in original chronologies, do we? More in associative patterns

Frodo 'failed'. It is possible that once the ring was destroyed he had little recollection of the last scene. But one must face the fact: the power of Evil in the world is not finally resistible by incarnate creatures, however 'good'; and the Writer of the Story is not one of us. Letter 191 From a letter to Miss J. Burn (draft)

The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved

Why then had he no past before he found the word cold in his mouth? He squatted down on the poor warped floorboards, shivering, rubbing himself for warmth, trying to remember. For a long time he squatted like a bird, for birds have no past or future but only an eternal present.

went to take a look at it. A plaque

information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrieved.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.

Recordando y Olvidando No te has olvidado de recordar; Te has acordado de olvidar. Pero la gente puede olvidarse de olvidar. Eso es tan importante como acordarse de recordar y, en general, más práctico.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

Remember is the last month,' said Festival. 'Remember's not a month.' 'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.

The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.

remember trying to breathe. I couldn't think. I remember