Quotes About Recollection

Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that.

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I will never dream again. For I can never again forget who I am. I realized that when I couldn't escape from the pain.

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

Very goodlooking people are as a rule more forgetful than the median. Their mothers start it and the world at large continues it, handing them things, picking things up for them, smoothing their vicinity out for them in every way. I on the other hand remember everything.

?nsan? ancak haf?za kurtarabilir.

Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them—usually—but lose the experience itself. We

Remembering wasn't safe. You could lose your mind, remembering.

Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.

Anger can prompt one to utter various words, but it can also make one fail to remember them afterward.

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must "recollect" ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Un buon libro lascia al lettore l'impressione di leggere qualcosa della propria esperienza personale. Quando la letteratura è al suo apice ci sembra che d'improvviso ricordiamo qualcosa d'importante che sapevamo ma abbiamo scordato.

I have only to shut my eyes after looking at it to forget the face. I can remember the wall of the room, the little heater, but all impression of the face of the principal figure in the room is blotted out; I am unable to recall a single thing about it.

Just when I was beginning to forget, that bird of ill-omen came flapping my way, to rip open with its beak the wounds of memory. All at once shame over the past and the recollection of sin unfolded themselves before my eyes and, seized by a terror so great it made me want to shriek, I could not sit still a moment longer. "How about a drink?" I asked.

como bastante; pero no recuerdo haberlo hecho nunca por hambre.

I am the sort of person who can forget even the name of the woman with whom he attempted suicide) to get off from work. The sushi I was eating had nothing to recommend it. Why, when I have forgotten her name, should I be able to remember so clearly how bad the sushi tasted?

Just when I was beginning to forget, that bird of ill-omen came flapping my way, to rip open with its beak the wounds of memory. All at once shame over the past and the recollection of sin unfolded themselves before my eyes and, seized by a terror so great it made me want to shriek, I could not sit still a moment longer.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the LUXURY of a regret.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

I don't have the total recall that makes the ideal autobiographer, nor have I kept diaries. I have always lived very much in the present, remembering only what seemed to be worth retelling. Even that ability is now partly gone; when I try to recall more recent memories they are fewer and less clear than those of my early days.

Dogs never have any difficulty in remembering the slightest event or the lightest word that has ever occurred or was ever spoken in their presence. Our power of memory is something marvelous