Quotes About Recollection

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. —James Thurber

eidetic memory

Libby remembers too well what was on her father's laptop.

How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it.

He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The recollection of moments often proved richer than the moment themselves.

En mis primeros recuerdos aparece el fuego.

Remembering—the good others have done, the evil others have done, and one's moral obligations—is an indispensable aspect of a good and meaningful life.

Remembering—the good others have done, the evil others have done, and one's moral obligations—is an indispensable aspect of a good and meaningful life. Who are we, if not our memories? I

How many 'inventions' are really memories, of the things we once knew?

Mm. You'd forgotten how to say anything except 'I love you,' but you said that a lot.

memory, making

also was remembering the baronet who might have been his father. He reached

What I wonder about the dreams is—all the new inventions people think up—how many of those things are made by people like me—like us? How many "inventions" are really memories, of the things we once knew? And—how many of us are there?

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Do you know it was a year a ago today?

Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

'All That' was fire but I don't really remember a lot of episodes.

I watch all of the Q episodes. I just don't remember them after I've turned off the television.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

They say that sometimes a man cannot recognize himself in a looking-glass. It is even harder to recognize oneself in the clouded mirror of the past.

All that is musical in us is memory.

I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being...

Ama an?msama dendiÄŸinde, belleÄŸim yaln?zca al???lm?? an?lar?, geride kalm??, eskitilmiÅŸ, terk edilmiÅŸ ÅŸeyleri dile getiriyorsa eÄŸer o zaman, içinde art?k beni hiçbir ÅŸeyin rahats?z etmemesi gereken bir an?lar daÄŸarc???ndan henüz uza??m, hem de çok uza??m demektir.

MANKIND IN AMNESIA (1982)