Quotes About Recollection

si algo tiene la memoria ajena es que es acróbata y se le esconde al que la pierde, se le hurta al que no la tiene.

the names come back to me like a song: Lorch, D'Augny, Neuhoff—

And you cannot be enthralled or made to forget.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Information can neither be created nor destroyed – it's accessible or it's inaccessible, but it is. If you have known it, and you can find the tiniest remnant of association, then you will know it again.

Memories take time and energy to create.

He got to his feet, and laughed suddenly, without humour. 'I recall Pierre complaining that Scotland is by far too full of strong-minded women. He was right there.

What this tells me is that facts are only the smallest components of memory.

Wait," I said. "Leo. Leo. Chicago." Then it came to me. "Leo James? Looks as though he ought to be a Nordic skiing champion? Tall, long, and blond.

Trying to remember, I have learned , is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the mons

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

She wondered where things went to when you forgot them. Perhaps it meant that her memory was not gone but was merely sleeping. Perhaps it would come again suddenly and she would remember all those things which she had forgotten.

Trivial things light fuses in the memory.

Je n'étais vraiment moi–même qu'à l'instant où je m'enfuyais. Mes seuls bons souvenirs sont des souvenirs de fuite ou de fugue.

There are blanks in a life, but also sometimes what they call a refrain. For periods of varying length, you don't hear this refrain, as if you've forgotten it.

Some sentences remain etched in your mind forever.

Si yo no diera fe de ello, no quedaría huella de la presencia de esa desconocida y de la de mi padre en un coche celular en febrero de 1942, en los Campos elíseos. Sólo serían personas —muertas o vivas— a las que se clasifica en la categoría de "individuos no identificados

Memory is stupid, ain't it?

A memory is not the thing remembered

A skilled observer might notice there was something his gaze avoided. The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night.

What could you possibly offer me that is worth the price of remembering?

felt every year twice tonight, some of them three times.

I have a good memory. That, perhaps more than anything else, sits in the center of what I am. It is the talent upon which so many of my other skills depend.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ...