Quotes About Recollection

There are no days more full than those we go back to.

Despite the bright lights and brilliant diversities of the world always remember to return home every once in a while.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

We write to taste life twice," Anaïs Nin said, "in the moment and in retrospection.

Sottolineo molto e ho l'abitudine di segnare alla fine del libro i numeri delle pagine che mi interessano, di modo che un giorno, leggendo quella serie di riferimenti, potrò in pochi minuti dare un'occhiata alle cose che più mi avevano sorpreso.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

If no one remembered them, were they ever really here?

what remains with me vividly to this day is my recollection of a circle of light that shone out from Rafe and enfolded us both, and the deep sense of comfort and familiarity between us, as if we had somehow always known each other and were merely resuming a conversation that had gone on from eternity.

Leo was reciting from the album covers: "Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Huey Lewis, Paula Abdul? This is like a bad MTV segment of 'Where Are They Now?'" "More like, guess who joined the Columbia House Record Club

Leo was reciting from the album covers: "Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Huey Lewis, Paula Abdul? This is like a bad MTV segment of 'Where Are They Now?'" "More like, guess who joined the Columbia House Record Club when she was

When Flora was a young girl she used to try to "fix" moments in her memory. The notion that years of her life would pass and she would only remember snippets, seconds of the whole, distressed her. She came up with a plan and at various times-walking home from school or out with friends or just sitting at her desk she would think: This. Remember this.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

contemporary reports are not always completely accurate and reminiscences are not necessarily flawed.

The strangest thing in all man's travelling is that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only who is foreign, and now and then, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

I'd like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally.

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don't return to it.

I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Time passes... but memories do not.

Memory revises me.

Memory is sweet. Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.

Let's agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.