Quotes About Recollection

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

How memory conspires with objects of human craft, pressing time flat, inciting a tender reminiscence.

This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We would hold the words for weeks or months, for the soft evening when a stray remark would set us to recollecting. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape.

Billy couldn't recall ever having seen a blind man laugh

I barely forget the times I had in this room, he said.

Power works best when there's no memory attached.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

The brain remembers music and forgets about noise just like the brain remembers some brands and forgets about others.

Adrift in an air of charged significance, doubt struck me: was it a real memory, had he really spoken those words to me, or was I dreaming?

honestly can't remember much else about those years

The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for 'dragonfly' and couldn't.

The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business

Yet every time I remembered it I was suffused with a glow of warmth.

Twelve years ago, in vision or reality, I certainly saw you. I could not forget your face. It has remained before my eyes ever since.

But, I suspect, in all lives there are certain emotional scenes, those in which our passions have been most wildly and terribly roused, that are of all others the most vaguely and dimly remembered.

La mémoire d'un enfant exagère les distances et les hauteurs.

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us. Oscar Wilde

so every time you bring up that memory, you bring with it all the feelings and emotions you had at that time.

But it was the kind of story that doesn't go away after the first time you tell it so you have to tell it over and over until it goes away for good. If it ever can.

I masturbated at the memory of her skin under mine.

Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

I used to feed the chickens for you all the time," said Evan. Jessie

My memory begins with my anger.