Quotes About Recollection

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La ausencia era eso. Un lugar que uno conoce y recuerda de memoria, como si fuera una foto, donde uno falta.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

The more stuff a child gets in December, the less stuff the child will remember having gotten by January.

The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is rarely granted except to the imaginative writer.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it , the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

It is strange that the mind will forget so much, and yet hold a picture of flowers that have been dead for thirty years or more...

T]here is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

indeed I often dream of it, and I can still feel how I felt, as though I was still small, and all those people were still alive. It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Are all my memories true? Every word, and growing truer with the years.

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

memory is always a collaboration in progress.

And yet, places remember what people forget.

The scent retrieves all kinds of things he once knew and reminds him of all those things he never will.

Men like to recall, in later years, what they said at some important or possibly historic moment in their lives. . . . I remember only too well what I said to General Somervell that day. I said, "Oh." As

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

One of the unfortunate side effects of teaching for forty years was that the task was so monumental, even in recollection, that it sometimes seemed you'd tried to teach everyone on the planet. What Miss Beryl looked for in each adult face was the evidence of some failed lesson in some distant yesterday that might predict incompetence today.

Leo had a weird memory of a missile hurtling towards him and screaming like a little girl … what the heck had that been about?

Leo. Jason said, you're wierd. Yeah, you tell me that a lot. Leo grinned. But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes. Come on!

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.

Yes, Horus said. I remember this place. It's El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you've never been here.