Quotes About Recollection

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

On croit que j'imagine — ce n'est pas vrai — je me souviens. [They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]

They ask me to write down all I remember of the Glory days. A hard thing, because there is so much of Sorrow in the telling.

Memory's images, once they are fixed with words, are erased.

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

Egli sapeva che del viaggio poco si ricorda. Passano fisionomie e s'accumulano confuse in un cantuccio della memoria, diventando collettività, nazioni, sessi, mai individui. Come nel sogno, ch'era tanto difficile da ricordare, perché piombava dalla notte oscura in un lapo di magnesio in cui s'agitavano cose e persone.

Pare che ricordare non sia una vera azione. Il ricordo lo si subisce immobile. Chi ricorda e chi è ricordato s'immobilizzano.

If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you learn something very quickly, you forget it immediately.

Remembered joy is twice sweet.

God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.

Pay? I've forgotten how!

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

When you feel better, have better recall, and sleep better, you are more likely to be on top of your game, and that makes you happier.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

The monsters want to talk, to share what happened. They want me to remember and write it all down.

the best-remembered experiences are distinctive/unique or have a strong emotional component.

It's not just that we remember things wrongly (which would be bad enough), but we don't even know we're remembering them wrongly

Implicit recollections without explicit processing may be the source of the experience of flashbacks in the extreme case; more commonly it may serve as the origin of rigid implicit mental models that block a parent's ability to remain flexible and attuned to a child.

be that excessive stress and hormonal secretion during a trauma directly impair the functioning of parts of the brain necessary for autobiographical memories to be stored. After the trauma, recollection of those details encoded in only nonverbal form will likely evoke distressful emotions that can be deeply disturbing.

When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

People don't always remember events or conversations clearly, but they do remember with great accuracy how an experience made them feel.

A pity we cannot pick and choose what we remember.