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Quotes About Recollection

the litup soul/self I have been From time to time I can't remember
~ Alice Notley
I only remember that it all hurt.
~ Alice Notley
or is it long ago, out of the memory I can't have, where does this imagery come from
~ Alice Notley
Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
~ Alice Sebold
Ik weet het weer... Glenlyon. De laird van Lyndsay. Prinses Alice. Já!' Nick deed een stap naar voren, zijn gezicht stond opgetogen. 'Het komt allemaal terug... eindelijk!' En toen dook Claire in zijn armen die zich voor haar hadden geopend en haar vasthielden.
~ Alison Baird
To Robin's recollection, one of the first shots that went out on the Television Food Network was of rats scurrying across a black floor.
~ Allen Salkin
One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.
~ Allison Pearson
Como un poema que se recita pero jamás se escribe, es más poderoso porque únicamente se retiene en el recuerdo.
~ Alyson Richman
Hasta el día de hoy la conservo encerrada en mi mente, apresada en un abrazo eterno.
~ Alyson Richman
In fond, oamenii nu citesc; daca citesc, nu pricep; daca pricep, uita.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Natsukashii definisce la nostalgia felice - risponde -, l'istante in cui la memoria rievoca un bel ricordo che la riempie di dolcezza. I suoi lineamenti e la sua voce esprimevano dispiacere, perciò si trattava di una nostalgia triste, che non è una nozione giapponese.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Elle avait déjà pu observer l'effarante capacité d'oubli des gens : ils oubliaient ce qui ne les arrangeait pas, ou plutôt, ils oubliaient quand cela les arrangeait, c'est-à-dire très souvent.
~ Amelie Nothomb
I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.
~ Ryan Reynolds
I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.
~ Claudia Winkleman
I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.
~ Caroll Spinney
Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
~ Don Larsen
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.
~ Joshua Foer
When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.
~ Joe Morton
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
~ David Leavitt
I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.
~ John Banville
I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.
~ Ron Perlman
I really do remember everything. I see people I haven't seen in 20 years, and I can talk with them about what we talked about outside the high school.
~ Richard Linklater
I have a one hundred gigabyte memory," said Slomo far too loud. "I think I can retain two dates.
~ Richard James
I might be dead and damned for all eternity but I'm not addle-brained. I remember.
~ Richard Kadrey