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Quotes About Recollection

where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten will I see again where you are
~ W.S. Merwin
Going too fast for myself I missed more than I think I can remember almost everything it seems sometimes and yet there are chances that come back that I did not notice when they stood where I could have reached out and touched them
~ W.S. Merwin
Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
~ Philip Larkin
I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.
~ Bob Newhart
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
~ Horace
Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.
~ Eric Schmidt
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.
~ Elizabeth Loftus
I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.
~ Edwin Moses
The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable – at least in our earthly existence.
~ Philip Zaleski
He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.
~ Philippa Gregory
I'll remember you acting crazy!
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Se si tenesse nota diligentemente di ogni luogo visto e di tutte le persone conosciute lungo il corso della vita, ciascuno di noi avrebbe i dati necessari per disegnare con precisione il proprio itinerario in terra.
~ Unknown
We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
~ Plato
Even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know...
~ Plato
Un recuerdo evocado demasiado a menudo y expresado en forma de historia tiende a convertirse en un estereotipo... cristalizado, perfeccionado, adornado, instalándose en sí mismo en lugar de la memoria pura y dura, y creciendo a sus expensas.
~ Primo Levi
The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to becomeerased as the years go by, but often they change, or even grow, by incorporating extraneous features. Judges know this very well: almost never do two eyewitnesses of the same event describe it in the same way and with the same words, even if the event is recent and if neither of them has a personal interest in distorting it.
~ Primo Levi
we become aware, with amazement, that we have forgotten nothing, every memory evoked rises in front of us painfully clear.
~ Primo Levi
Se è vero che non c'è maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria, è altrettanto vero che rievocare un'angoscia ad animo tranquillo, seduti quieti alla scrivania, è fonte di soddisfazione profonda.
~ Primo Levi
? ????? ?????? ?????????: ?????? ???? ??????? ??, ??? ?????????? ???????, ??? ????? ?????? ???????... I still recall the wondrous moment When you appeared before my eyes, Just like a fleeting apparition, Just like pure beauty's distillation...
~ Unknown
One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.
~ R. Scott Bakker
I'm insane, not forgetful.
~ Rachel Caine
What's her name? Claire, what's her name?
~ Rachel Caine
I love you for answering the call of a red notebook once upon a time.
~ Rachel Cohn
I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.
~ Dean Koontz