Quotes About Recollection

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Now Arn remembered and said that this was indeed a vivid memory, but it was also an event that was considerably better to remember than it was at the time.

Perfume is my memory, the chronicle of my life. —DB

Mrs. Miniver put the last sheet back on top of the others and clipped them all together again. No, she could not possibly throw them away: they contained too much of her life. Besides, however clear one's memories seemed to be, it did one no harm to polish them up from time to time. One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

Some of what I remembered was not my own story. It was twisted like tobacco strands, tangled with a dozen other memories of people who were here and others who were not even a part of the terror.

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.

picture flash into my mind. I could just see Aunt

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently

They say you don't directly remember things you see. Instead, you remember a memory of a memory of a memory of a… The

One of my favorite CEOs reminds me often that "memories are convenient." What he means is we more readily remember events that prove we're right.

y nos dimos besos que nos podíamos haber ahorrado y así yo no tendría que recordarlos.

We forget what we say much more than what we hear, what we write much more than what we read, what we send much more than what we receive, that is why we barely count the insults we hand out to others, unlike those dealt out to us, which is why almost everyone harbors some grudge against someone.