Quotes About Recollection

In forgetting, they were trying to remember.

Al buscar el olvido, trataban de recordar.

Like so many American tales, On the Road is about escape, about lighting out for the perpetually receding territory ahead.

Remembrance of things past.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

While memory holds a seatIn this distracted globe. Remember thee!Yea, from the table of my memoryI'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

The memory be green.

The strongest memory I have of that night is being chased around the bed.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

it is psychologically impossible to describe a person or object from memory without first forming a mental image of it

Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!

You can never forget His appearing and His speaking to you.

Play it again, Sam!

I thought I could hear the sound of my memory burning that night.

Memories don't just pile up—they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord. Though the process, for me, is quite different from what happens to the rest of you when something disappears from the island.

Memories don't just pile up - they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord.

You see, my brother-in-law can never remember you, but he can never forget me

And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.

The memories of him as a small boy and memories from my days at the dormitory seemed to bleed together like the shades in a watercolor painting

Writing an autobiography means guessing or making up everything you've forgotten. I thought I'd already sufficiently described the character Ivan. In reality, I could no longer even remember him. Or rather: I was starting to remember him all too clearly, which could only mean this Ivan was now nothing more than my creation.

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

To live as I understand it is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.

Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place "now",at the moment it's called up in the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience, because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.