Quotes About Recollection

We have a natural tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That's where mantras come in. They serve as

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

Plato called this anamnesis, remembering what and who we are, beneath our lives' shifting camouflage, beyond what can be taken away.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.

I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

He was listening so I don't remember.

I have a poor memory for names; but I seldom remember a face.

I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.

Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

Funny how certain things stay with you.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

The future is the keeper of the memories of the past

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.