Quotes About Recollection

The eye records. The eye takes vivid, unforgettable pictures.

Souvent Me Souvient (Remember Me Often)-The Darwin Conspiracy

The problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like

Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names

But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me

It is like remembering two different lives at once...and wondering which of them is mine...

The rule of identity is the rule of amnesia.

Don't you understand?" he would say, "You imagine the story better than I remember it.

And never forget, there is memory.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't.

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

The past is everlasting.

I was four, and I sincerely believe that this is my first memory of life itself – as opposed to what I was told happened, as opposed to the pictures other people have painted for me.

I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man.

Your memory is a monster; you forget -it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later

Idiot Wind." Jack would always remember that song.)

it is history that holds you accountable, and I've already expressed my opinion that Americans are not big on history. How many of them even remember their own, recent history? Was twenty years ago so long ago for Americans?

and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later, I would remember everything.

The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. In consequence, financial disaster is quickly forgotten.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.