Quotes About Recollection

Il me semblait en effet qu'une idée, aussi brillante fût-elle, n'était pas vraiment digne d'être retenue si, pour simplement s'en souvenir, il fallait la noter.

I think I would remember forgetting that.

La memoria es engañosa porque está coloreada por los acontecimientos de hoy.

esto pasa desde que yo tengo memoria.

La única memoria que tenía de esos años era que no tenía ninguna.

God is God because he remembers.

To write your memoirs is to draw up a balance sheet of your life so far.

HE REMEMBERS NOW WITH SOMETHING LIKE A FULL-BODY FLUSH, HE REMEMBERS WHAT IT MEANS TO SHARE SOMETHING WITH SOMEONE, THE PARTICULAR ALCHEMY THAT CAN LIGHT THINGS UP.

Mercifully my dear Edna, said Peg, I do not remember anything I have ever said in my entire life.

Mercifullym my dear Edna, said Peg, I do not remember anything I have ever said in my entire life.

Now, now, said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie. Reynaud raised his eyebrows. You did? He did not, Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. I threw him down the stairs. Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. Not my recollection, but I can see how your memory of the event may've become hazy.

now she couldn't quite remember the face of the boy whose

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.

I suppose familiarity erodes even the most awful memories

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don't know from one day to the next what's remembered and what's made up. Like when you memorize a poem, and for one small unimportant part you supply your own words. The meaning's the same, the meter's identical. When you read the actual version you can never get it into your head that it's right and you're wrong.

Well, sir, my recollection is that the Board said I should not command any R.S.S. combat vessels until further training . . . it didn't say anything about Bloodhorde ships.

Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother's bureau. I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

What we know instinctively," she continued, "is simply what we are trying to remember. Knowledge is memory.

In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he'd kept for himself.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.