Quotes About Recollection

The memories come in pieces. Little bits of grit too small to pick up even with a wetted finer, too small even to hold in my gaze.

As Katie moved through the rooms, everything reminded her of everything:

Memory can refuse to let you forget what you'd like to and run away with what you want to remember. It's an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it's both at once.

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!

To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

Mientras se recuerda, estamos dando vida al objeto del recuerdo. (P. 274)

Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably pure, without a twinge of conscience or shame.

I began to think that some of us are the designated rememberers. Why do we remember? I don't know. But I think that's why memoir interests us—because we're the ones who pass the stories. --Pat Conroy

Some of us are the designated rememberers,

Os mortos não morrem quando deixam de viver, mas quando os votamos ao esquecimento.

Quién es? —No es nadie. —Pero la he visto, he visto a una mujer escondiéndose. —Es lo que le acabo de decir: aquí, una mujer no es nadie...

Once his head cleared, he turned to Matilda.

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious, while humans are forgetful.

liar needs a good memory.

There's something about her that reminds me of Ellen, but then I realize that it's Ellen who's reminded me of Annabelle. Ellen is dim in comparison.

All the things he saw made him feel his head would burst. He tried to store them in his memory so that he would be able to accurately recount them to his own people. But as he remembered the events that led him to this place, he realized he might never see them again.

Maybe you can only go back in your mind?

Removes Parts Of Someone's Memory

The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.

At this point my mind recalls something I read a while back and opens a note somewhere in my brain. The memory says "Epstein wife killed." It happened sometime after his testimony appearance.

Vijftieneneenhalf,' zei Dora hoofdschuddend. 'Zo ver kan ik niet terugdenken... Kun jij je nog iets herinneren van toen je vijftien was?' 'Levendig,' zei Scatty bars. 'Was dat niet zo ongeveer toen ik u in Babylon heb opgezocht en u hebt geprobeerd me aan koning Neboekadzenar uit te huwelijken?' 'Volgens mij vergis je je,' zei Dora opgewekt. 'Ik geloof dat dat later was.

I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.