Quotes About Recollection

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

Janie gave me a pen. Mrs. Tadworth gave me a doll. Matt

Memory is a funny thing sometimes.

Women remember. Our bodies remember. Every part of us remembers that has ever happened. Every touch, every feel, everything is there in our skin, ready to be awakened, revived.

That was the problem with memory, the process of focusing on one thing necessarily required the exclusion of something else and sometimes the something else was the most important part.

My most salient memories

Je me souvenais encore du jour où elle m'avait déclaré sa flemme d'aimer.

The past remains hidden in clouds of memory.

Our memory is massively influenced by the strength of our feelings at the time.

I have memories that I'm not using very often That I would be happy to give to someone who needed memories.

I should also say, in case it needs saying: I don't know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren't. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

preserved in Nora's memory like a mosquito in amber.

And have you never walked into a room and wondered what you came in for? Have you never forgotten what you just did? Have you never blanked out or misremembered what you were just doing?

I don't know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren't. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

Visualize and re-experience it completely in your mind.

That's the thing I hate most about my brain, the way it stores and catalogs things, all this dumb shit on a giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like a crazy person.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Es error común de los humanos creer que el prójimo concede a su persona tanta importancia como cada uno se da a sí mismo; los demás, a no ser que tengan interés particular en el recuerdo, olvidan rápidamente lo que nos ha ocurrido, y si no lo han olvidado, su recuerdo no tiene la firmeza que imaginamos.

Het verleden is altijd tegenwoordig. (The past is always present.)

How do we know that it refers to the past? That is the real problem of memory.

Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory

Every memory reopens lost time and invites us to again take up the situation that it evokes.

Vivre (tel que je l'entends) c'est exister dans une certaine conception du temps. Mais se rappeler c'est se défaire de la notion du temps. Chaque souvenir, aussi lointain soit-il, a lieu "maintenant", au moment où il apparaît dans l'esprit. Plus on se souvient d'une chose, plus le cerveau a la possibilité d'affiner l'expérience originale, car un souvenir ne se visionne pas, il se recrée.

Others said it was more like five thousand. Eyewitnesses